S E C T . I I . Reftdençe at Bay Falfo. Goes to Bay Falfo to wait on therefident, whofe children he is to educate. Is entertained on the road at night by a rich boor, with gritty bread and meat preferved with pepper. Peculiar courtefy o f the French nation contrafted with the manners o f the D u tch ' at this- colony. Meets with his old chum, Dr . T h u n b e rg , at Cape T ow n . Defcription o f b a lie Bay and the adjacent country. Dutch politenefs at table. Story o f an Bn g lilh lady go in g to be married in the Eaft-Indies. Seal- fhooting. T h e torpedo. Defcription o f various fifties, infefts, and plants, p . 29. ' - r S E C T . III. Refidence at Alfhen, near Conflantia, t ill the authors trip to Paarl. Removes to Conftantia with the relident. T h e plants there T h e vine yard. . T h e filver-tree. Uncommon difpofition o f Table-mountain, with re fp eil to rain. Beautiful profpedt from the fouth-fide o f it. . Adventures in confequence o f lofing his way g t night. Diftertatioii on the Conftantia and Cape wines. H o u t-b a y defcribed. T h e palmites plant. Divers kinds o f fmall antilopes. Several forts o f viverræ or weafels. T h e method o f catching 'them, and their ufes. A youne hippopotamus. T h e efteem in which botany is held at the Cape exemplified in the behaviour o f a Cape phyiician, p. J c . S E C T . IV . Trip to Paar l. Le tte r to a brother failor, defcwbing a fix-weeks excurfion made on foot in October. H ire s a baftard, a man o f family, for his guide. Racks wheels, and gibbets, expofed in the pub lic roads. ' N ew fpecies o f cicmdela. Is taken up by a waggon drawn by twelve oxen, but foon quits it Concert o f ja cka lls, frogs- and owls. Is lodged and entertained by a flave Battle between the houfé-flavei and the cow-herd I he forts o f feed fown in this colony. Curious method o f fervino- at the fame time God and mammon. Salutation o f a boor. T h e author very very ungallantly neglefls to requite the fervices o f a female flave. A flave’s revenge on his niggardly mafter. A t a rich widow s houfe is in danger o f being k icked out o f doors, on his hat being difcovered with the brim ftuck full o f infe&s. Floats naked over the river to an iflet on a bundle o f palmites plants, in order to botanize there. Behaviour o f a furly but hofpitable miller. Makes a fexton and his wife happy, b y prognofticating the death o f the latter. Is hofpitably received by a le a r n e d boor. Th e tower o f Babel. Drunken foldiers. Oblig ed , to gether with his hoft, to bolt his chamber-door, for fear o f being murdered b y the (laves. A curious love-fcale. Prices o ff la y e s and cattle. Bad confequences o f the flave-trade. H is guide has not the leaft idea o f a deity. Conclufion o f the letter, p. 7 7 . S E C T . V. Refidence at Alphen, after the author's return from Paarl. Obfervations on the uniola and pifang, p. 79.. C H A P. p i V o y a g e t o t h e S o u t h S e a . . S E C' T. I. 'The circumftances which gave occafton to this Vyage. Goes round the world with Capt. C o o k , as an afliftant to Meflrs. Forfter. T h e occafion o f his undertaking, this voyage, p, 84. S E C T . IIL Voyage from the Cape o f Good Hope to New-Zialandc Continuation o f the journal o f the voyage, p. 87,- S E C T .
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