The men, unlike those on the plains, spend a good deal of their time in hunting; this may be because they have but little ground on the hill-sides suitable for gardens, and but little certainty of reaping what may be sown in the valleys.

No women came forward in the hamlet, east of Chiperiziwa, where we halted for the night.

Two shots had been fired at guinea-fowl a little way off in the valley; the women fled into the woods, and the men came to know if war was meant, and a few of the old folks only returned after hearing that we were for peace.

The headman, Kambira, apologized for not having a present ready, and afterwards brought us some meal, a roasted coney (_Hyrax capensis_), and a pot of beer; he wished to be thought poor.

The beer had come to him from a distance; he had none of his own.