Brought over R. D. 8630
6 Slaves at 300 Rd. - 1800
2 Waggons - - 8°9
Furniture - - IO°9
I nplements of husbandry - 500
12,730 Intereft
Clothing for Haves - -
Ditto for the family - *
Tea and fugar -
Duty on corn brought to market 150* Panih taxes 20
Contingencies, wear and teaf, &c.
Corn fold to the wine-boors and graziers more than fuf-
ficient to defray all other expences
Amount of outgoings 1423 6
Returns.
300 Muids of corn a 4 Rd. R. D.
100 Ditto of barley a 3 Rd.
•6 Loads of chaff a 32 Rd.
1000 lbs. butter a i f Sk.
1 Horfes fold annually a 40 Rd.
Amount of returns 2142 o
Balance in favour of the farmer R. D. 718 2
°*£- >43 13
4. The graziers, properly fo galled, are thofe of Graaf Rey-
net and other diftant parts of the colony. Thefe are a clafs of
men, of all the reft, the leaft advanced in civilization. Many
of them, towards the borders of the fettlement, are perfed No-
mades, wander about from place to place without any fixed
habitation, and live in ftraw-huts fimilar to thofe of the Hottentots.
Thofe who are fixed to one or two places are little
better with regard to the hovels in which they live. Thefe
have feldom more than two apartments, and frequently only one,
in which the parents with fix or eight children and the houfe
Hottentots all fleep • their bedding confifts generally of ikins.
Their hovels are varioufly conftruded, fometimes the walls being
mud or clay baked in the fun, fometimes fods and poles,
and frequently a fort of wattling plaiftered over with a mixture
of earth and cow-dung, both within and without; and they
are rudely covered with a thatch of reeds that is rarely waterproof.
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Their clothing is very flight; the men wear generally a broad
brimmed hat, a blue ihirt, and leather pantaloons, no ftockings,
but a pair of dried ikin fhoes. The women have a thick quilted
cap that ties with two broad flaps under the chin, and falls behind
acrofs the ihoulders; and this is cpnftantly worn in the
hotteft weather; a fliort jacket and a petticoat, no ftockings, and
frequently without fhoes. The bed for the mafter and miftrefs
of the family is an oblong frame of wood, fupported on four
feet, and reticulated with thongs of a bullock’s hide, fo as to
fupport a kind of mattrefs made of ikins fewed together, and
fometimes fluffed with wool. In winter they ufe woollen,
- V01- 3 f blankets.