They Tore
My Cloak, Cut The Buttons From My Boy's Clothes, And Were Proceeding
To Other Outrages, When I Mounted My Horse And Rode Off, Followed
For Half-A-Mile By A Body Of These Harpies.
In the evening we reached Soobrudooka, and as my company was
numerous (being fourteen), I purchased a sheep and abundance of corn
for supper; after which we lay down by the bundles, and passed an
uncomfortable night in a heavy dew.
December 20. - We departed from Soobrudooka, and at two o'clock
reached a large village situated on the banks of the Faleme river,
which is here rapid and rocky. The natives were employed in fishing
in various ways. The large fish were taken in long baskets made of
split cane, and placed in a strong current, which was created by
walls of stone built across the stream, certain open places being
left, through which the water rushed with great force. Some of
these baskets were more than twenty feet long, and when once the
fish had entered one of them, the force of the stream prevented it
from returning. The small fish were taken in great numbers in hand-
nets, which the natives weave of cotton, and use with great
dexterity. The fish last mentioned are about the size of sprats,
and are prepared for sale in different ways; the most common is by
pounding them entire as they come from the stream, in a wooden
mortar, and exposing them to dry in the sun, in large lumps like
sugar loaves.
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