at dies, and who by the bye was but a ¡fad fellow., finding Ms wife and -child begin to recover from their putrid fever, undertook, in confideration of fome medicines he had had o f me, but chiefly in confideration o f the hard money I paid him down upon the nail, to drive my waggon; hut no farther than to ZweUendam, where Mr. Immixman was in hopes o f getting Hottentots eafier. In the mean while, in default of oxdeaders, we were obliged, though on horfe- back, to condefcend, by means of a long rope, ourfelves to perform this office, which in Africa/is looked upon in the loweft light imaginable.- Tog;ive:this difagreeable affair a better colour, we gave ourfelves credit wherever we went for undertaking this piece of drudgery; as being the heft method to get rid o f the greateft impediment in our journey, and ;as freeing us'from the neceffity of making low fubmiffions to our inferiors, and of being too troublefome to others for their affiftance. By this means, indeed, we made the good people cry us up for what bare neceffity forced us to ; but, for all that, _ we were neither better nor worfe than ox-leaders. On the 26 th o f Auguft we left the bath, and arrived in good time at S teen b o ck-riv ier, where my ^patient lived who had paid me for m y vifits with milk and meat, during my refidence at the bath. He had for many years paft ufed the bath himfelf for a violent.fwelling and eryfipelas in one of his legs, but was now already relieved by the ufe o f iffues, the leaves o f elder, &c. on which account he fold me the fpirits I wanted to preferve my animals in, at a very reafonable rate, and at the fame time perfuaded me to flay there that night \ but to the great terror and difquietude quietud^.qf. ^y/f^ftovyj-t^^ll^r, h? ftxjged'yis in the fqoul'jin:- whifihchk foirhadj-ately: lain. ffi o f ^ pptifd fcyqr. ¿ 3 5 tic .afterwards. gave us a fow prpyilionp ftqy put- journey; and would oblige us to borrow Aporridgy-pot .qf him, WMfihjIdh^uPPrffidered. as a tropblefpnve>£fpp^fluify^ but afterwards found that ;by preflipg it i ip p iv ^ ^ 'h a d done, us a peculiariy kind officp. to :i -v [ ,r.. ? On the -ay thi we l e t :put,again. .<?n our journeys and as thecoiid was,good and, even all' tfey.way, - and my Hottentot aifiired me that, he could do very wylj without any leader,/ we let him go forward while we rode up to the farms hear the road, where we were treated by the owner ofit.w ith a.rare, and: delicate diffi; a: font,of fparrovr or findh (fom i broiled?: a.bird that;does much mif7 chief in ;the cOrn-fields,. but with its black-.runl yellow plumage makes a beautiful appearance. I have obfbryed, that this little animal, at ,the approach o f lumpier, alwpys changed fts,yellow for. a blood-redyhue,i-,-» co r: .- />• // ® Ouf driver, indeed, had notmmch .the ffarfirjEjf n-s;' but though we puffied vyry fait after him,. we;,wem fS® to overtake him before the evening came o p ; we .began to fear we had gone out o f our road, when at Jongtli >vp mo? with a drunken European, ywfto Was notrafliamed,,to .offey himfelf to be my fervant, after haying acknowledged that, in company with my Hottentot, he bad been getting drunk with the contents of my brandy-Oafk. - A t length wq overtook our Hottentot, who, not fo drunk as his companion, denied the faft, though-the-mail o f the look; ¡belonging fo the calk above-mentioned, wfs aftually broke ©ft', j ¡Haying taken off the Oxen, and -unfaddled our . liorfes at the farm called
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