. Missionary travels and researches in South Africa : including a sketch of sixteen years' residence in the interior of Africa, and a journey from the Cape of Good Hope to Loanda, on the west coast, thence across the continent, down the river Zambesi, to the eastern ocean. rennial. We met in the road natives passingwith bundles of cops, or spindles full of cotton thread, and thesethey were carrying to other parts to be woven into cloth. Thewomen are the spinners, and the men perform the web is about 5 feet long, and 15 or 18 inches wide. Theloom is of the simplest construction, be
. Missionary travels and researches in South Africa : including a sketch of sixteen years' residence in the interior of Africa, and a journey from the Cape of Good Hope to Loanda, on the west coast, thence across the continent, down the river Zambesi, to the eastern ocean. rennial. We met in the road natives passingwith bundles of cops, or spindles full of cotton thread, and thesethey were carrying to other parts to be woven into cloth. Thewomen are the spinners, and the men perform the web is about 5 feet long, and 15 or 18 inches wide. Theloom is of the simplest construction, being nothing but two beamsplaced one over the other, the web standing threads of the web are separated by means of a thin woodenlath, and the woof passed through, by means of the spindle onwhich it has been wound in spuming. The mode of spinning and weaving in Angola, and indeedthroughout South Central Africa, is so very like the same occu-pations in the hands of the ancient Egyptians, that I introducea woodcut from the interesting work of Sir Gardner Wilkinson. 400 CHEAPNESS OF LABOUE. Chap. XX. The lower figures are engaged in spinning in the real Africanmethod, and the weavers in the left-hand corner have their webin the An<2;olese Ancient Spinning and Weaving, perpetuated in Africa at the present Wilkinsons Ancient Egyptians, pp. 85, 86. Numbers of other articles are brought for sale to these sleeping-places. The native smiths there carry on their trade. I boughtten very good table-knives made of country iron for two penceeach. Labour is extremely cheap, for I was assured that even car-penters, masons, smiths, &c, might be hired for fourpence a day,and agriculturists would gladly work for half that sum.* * In order that the reader may understand the social position of the peopleof this country, I here give the census of the district of Golungo Alto forthe year 1854, though the numbers are evidently not all furnished :— 23S househol
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