2 2 6 DRAWINGS AND COLLECTIONS. S, i J une,
ball. It was settled that they should take up their residence at
Grootedoorn, where our friend Hans Lucas, and Hendrik, very
readily promised to give them protection. I mentioned their case
to Mr. Anderson, and requested him to see that they were not in
want, and engaged to repay whatever might be advanced on their
account.
In Mr. Kramer’s care, I left a chest containing my collection of
birds, insects, botanical specimens * and drawings, to be taken to
* From the number of new plants discovered in tlie vicinity of Klaarwater, the fol-
lowing are selected;
Iponuea suffruticosar B. Catal. Geogr. 1838. Radix crassa fusifbrmis, vel bulbosa.
Caulis ramosus, non volubilis. Fólia argentea oblongo-ovalia, (aliquando obtusa.) _ Flores
solitarii axillares magni speciosi purpureo-rosei. Sepala (calycis foliola) lanceolata sericea.
Makemia Linnceoides, Catal. Geogr. 1878. Pianta humifusa glabriuscula. Caules
filiformes. Folia orbiculata petiolata crenata. Flores aurantiaci, longè pedunculati
nutantes. Faciem habet plantulse illse borealis, ob nomen impositum colendissima.
Cleome oxyphylla. Cat. Geog. 1887. Pianta sesquipedalis subramosa, scabra punts
tnl is elevatis glandulosó viscosis. Folia longè petiolata, foliolis septenis lanceolatis utrinque
acutis. Flores flavi.
Cotyledon trigyna. C. G. 1898. Acaulis. Folia glabra complanata carnosa cuneato-
ovalia, (vel suborbiculata). Flores erecti alterni, in scapo elongato simplici (rarissime
bifido). Corolla cylindrica purpurascens, limbo albo brevi reflexo. Faux purpurea..
Capsules tres.
Aristida (Arthratherum) lanuginosa. C. G. 1917. Culmus solidus (perennans ?).
Folia linearia striata, (apice saspiùs pungente) vaginis extus lanuginosis. Panicula
composita.
Chironia palustris. C. G. 1925. Herbacea acaulis. Folia plura radicalia conferta
spathulata obtusa integerrima. Scapus apice paniculatus, medio bracteis duabus linearibus
oppositis.
Asparagus suaveolens. C. G. 1956. Frutescens spinosus sesquipedalis. Caules erecti.
Rami patentes breves, spina terminati. Ramuli numerosissimi fasciculati inermes ; inter
quos spinse tres patentes rectae. Folia subulata tematim fasciculata. Flores copiosi albi
solitarii vel bini, terminales.
Ceiosia recuroa. C. G. 2111. Folia patentia linearia collapsa, apice recurva. Flores
rubri spicati.
At this .place several European plants are naturalized, having been introduced
probably by means of their seeds mixed with the com, or with garden seeds.
Veronica Anagallis. Polypogon Monspeliensis. Per. Syn.
Epilobium tetragonum. Polygonum lapathifolium.
Juncus articidatus. Lolium temulentum.
Ranunculusphilonotis, var. D C . Chenopodium Botrys.
Shim latifolium. &c.
18.12. MISUNDERSTANDING AND DISPUTE. 227
Cape Town by any of the caravan of waggons which were to accompany
him: and as payment for the carriage of it, I left a draft for
thirty rix dollars, j- He promised to look after this chest in the mean
while; and engaged to take charge . himself, of a hippopotamus’
tongue for my friend Mr. Hesse.
I paid the captain for the goats, sheep, and com had of him ;
and made him a present of a blue jacket, a saw, and some linen
which I purchased, for him at Graaffreynet.
4th. The hook of the drag-chain belonging to my great waggon,
was found broken, and Gert having told me that the captain had
borrowed it for ploughing, at which time the accident happened, I
sent it to him to be mendedf as he occasionally exercised the trade
of blacksmith. But it was soon discovered that Gert’s story was
entirely a fabrication, for the captain sent it back highly offended
at the demand, declaring that it had never been used by him. With
some trouble I found out, that it had really been lent to another
Hottentot: and when Gert was questioned why he had made up so
false a story, he replied that as, at my departure, I had desired him
to lend the captain any thing which he might want in my absence,
he thought it would make the least trouble to tell me that it was he
who broke it.
This occurrence, trifling as it was in itself, created some serious
misunderstanding for a time ; and strangely enough, much irritation
against myself instead of my Hottentot. But as Mr. Anderson took
upon himself the guidance and regulation of the Klaarwater people,
I imagined that, to let all parties have a mutual explanation, would
be the shortest way of putting a stop to misrepresentations ; and accordingly,
on the following day, they met at the missionary’s house,
where, it soon appearing who was to be blamed, the captain with an
openness and honesty too rare in the Transgariepine, and at which
I was equally surprised and pleased, confessed himself in the wrong,
f At my final return to Klaarwater I learnt to my disappointment, that this chest
still remained thefe, none of the waggons, as I was informed, having found it convenient
to take it.