It is a frightful scene.

The men, wild with excitement, spear the lovely animals with mad delight; others of the poor creatures, borne down by the weight of their dead and dying companions, every now and then make the whole mass heave in their smothering agonies.
The Bakwains often killed between sixty and seventy head of large game at the different hopos in a single week; and as every one, both rich and poor, partook of the prey, the meat counteracted the bad effects of an exclusively vegetable diet.

When the poor, who had no salt, were forced to live entirely on roots, they were often troubled with indigestion.
Such cases we had frequent opportunities of seeing at other times, for, the district being destitute of salt, the rich alone could afford to buy it.

The native doctors, aware of the cause of the malady, usually prescribed some of that ingredient with their medicines.

The doctors themselves had none, so the poor resorted to us for aid.