. Lake Ngami; or, Explorations and discoveries during four years' wanderings in the wilds of southwestern Africa . different wildanimals surrounding them. The only weapons in use among the Bayeye are light jav-elins, having sometimes two or three barbs. In addition tothis, the elders of the nation carry a shield, nearly oval inform, made of a single fold of ox-hide ; but they have onlybecome acquainted with this means of defense since theywere subdued by the Bechuanas. To the want of shieldsthey entirely attribute their own defeat. With regard to their habits, customs, manners, &c., muchof wha
. Lake Ngami; or, Explorations and discoveries during four years' wanderings in the wilds of southwestern Africa . different wildanimals surrounding them. The only weapons in use among the Bayeye are light jav-elins, having sometimes two or three barbs. In addition tothis, the elders of the nation carry a shield, nearly oval inform, made of a single fold of ox-hide ; but they have onlybecome acquainted with this means of defense since theywere subdued by the Bechuanas. To the want of shieldsthey entirely attribute their own defeat. With regard to their habits, customs, manners, &c., muchof what has already been said of the Bechuanas may be ap-plied to the Bayeye—a natural consequence of subjugation. Like most dark-colored nations, they are addicted to in-toxicating liquors. They understand how to brew beer, onwhich they frequently become inebriated. The men are inveterate snuff-takers, and the women dacka smokers. In former times the Bayeye possessed numerous herds ofcattle, but these passed into the hands of the Bechuaua*^upon their assuming the masteiy over the country. They B A YE YE. 481. BAYETE. X 482 PRODUCTS. are permitted, however, to rear a few goats, which they doless for the sake of the milk and flesh than for the skins,Tvhich are converted into sleeping rugs, and carosses for also keep a few barn-door fowls, but apparently of avery ordinary breed. They derive their chief subsistence from the produce of thesoil, which is fertile, yielding the necessaries of life in abun-dance, and with little labor. A month or two before therainy season the ground for cultivation is selected, cleared,and slightly worked by a small, short hoe, the only agricul-tural implement I have seen used by the Bayeye in the first heavy rains they begin to sow the corn, ofwhich there are two l-dnds indigenous to the country, name-I /, the common CaiTie, and another sort, very small-grain-ed, and not unlike canary-seed—a description which is akin,as I am inf
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