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[Page 33]
Here I see for first time the jack fruit tree. It resembles small tr contracted marrow with rough exterior & grows on the main stem of tree & not on a branch. The interior resembles pommegrante . We now enter the market (native part).
[A, B & C stalls are marked on sketch of native markets]
A represents stalls having native work shields, sticks, books.Jewellery exhibited. In one of them a native is making the anklets & armlets we see on certain castes or tribes by binding silver wire round horse hair. B is a Zulu drinking garden. The liquor is supplied by council who regulate quantity of alcohol. When a fresh lot arrives a bell is rung & all natives at hand with a penny form a queue. They pay money receive a ticket which they surrender at a stile & receives a pot of " utywala" or ijigi. No one can get a second helping without quitting & re-entering in his turn. I taste the drink it is thick & pink & has very sour taste. I amuse the Zulus by the faces I make when drinking. We then pass to C the dining tables. Food is great hunks of fat, liver, sweet meat or any other rejected part of animal. Mealie abounds & bread fills gaps. Also the greasy stew with lumps of fat - taro root, yams. See a Zulu woman with headdress & investigate it much to girls amusement. She has only a rough cloth around her shoulder & waist. Arms neck breast & legs exposed. Her head dress in about 2 ft long & took 10 [mos?] to put up. The hair is wove in & plaited with strands of string or fibre. These girls are from a kraal on 4 or 5 days leave granted by Govt & return at end of that time. Girl has a slight but well moulded figure. Then pass to snuff vendor & sample the snuff using a snuff spoon. It causes me to sneeze & old Zulu says it must be good. then visit the medicine men - herbalists - their initiate is mingled with superstitious ideas dislike amputation but cup much with end of a horn. Teeth are extracted by digging it out with a spear or any sharp piece of iron. Medicines are made of decoctions of leaves, roots, without regard to size of dose. Often patient succumbs. Poultices