turn, when hunted, and hunt their purfuers. T ig e r -w o lf, or hyaena, eats up the carcafes and bones o f animals which are left untouched' by other wild beafts, and would otherwife contaminate the atmofphere. Its cowardly but artful manner o f attacking other animals. By imitating the cries o f other creatures, it decoys them away from, the reit o f the herd, with a view, to devour them. Is the molt voracious as well as watchful o f all animals. Betrays its approach by an involuntary b arking, proceeding from ah empty and conftantly craving ftomach. A t night is fuffered to enter the town at the Cape, being o f great ufe in clearing the ihambles. Adventure o f a drunken trumpeter with .’a hyaena. T h is fpccies never before accurately defcribed. Eats up one o f the traces belonging to the author’ s waggon. Pretended change o f its fex accounted^for; as likewife the ftories o f its imitating the human vo ice , and enchanting the Ihepherds, fo that they cannot- ftir from the fpot where they are. Seldom . caught, and hardly ever Ihot. Ufe o f this creature’s lon g lhag gy coat, p. 1 7 1 . C H A P. V. J o u r n e y f r o m t h e W a r m B a t h t o Z w e l l e n d a m . T h e driver has not the leaft knowledge o f the road. N o t being able to g e t a flo tten to t any where to lead their oxen, make a virtue o f neceffityj and turn ox-leaders themfelves. Procures a Hottentot to drive his w aggon, who gets at the brandy the author had taken with him, for the purpofe o f preferving animals in, and treats his companions with it . T h e author and his. friend in danger o f being murdered by thefe fellows in their liquor. T h e author puts a liv e ferpent into the liquor. Hottentots ufed to fwallow the poifon o f ferpents, confidering it as a prefervative againft the bite o f thefe animals. Is cheated in the bargain he made for his o x e n ., One o f .them runs home. T h e farm and foreft at T ig e r -h o e k defcribed. Defcription o f the perfons, c lo th in g ,. ornaments, and arms o f the Hottentots. Befmeared with greafe and foot, which alters their natural complexion. T h is iil defcribed by authors. T h e males have no defeft itl the organs o f generation, nor have the females any fuperfluity in thofe parts : what appears there being not natural b u t artificial. Hottentots perfume themfelves with the powder o f a plant called bucku. D o not w ear the inteffines o f animals, but a number o f ■ leathern rings about their arms and legs. Th e ir field lhoes. Method o f making them particularly defcribed. T h e ir craals or villages and b u t s. Theirmanners and dilpolition. Bofhies-men, or Wild Hottentots. T h e ir C O N T E N T S . sxv T h e i r maxims and weapons. Live in deferts on bemes and other infefts. Their amazing voracity but-after beino- caught, are fattened in the fpace o f a few weeks, in e colonifts hunt them like wild beafts; and frequently make parties for the Durpofe o f catching and enflaving them. Very much given to run v hut- never carrv anv thine; off with them.iSislW B Piiife A lmmoft talswaeyss in# a the H o t .™ » ! , have eonception, neither can any he " them, o f a God. Confider rain at all times as an evil. Bully the thunder. H a v e great faith in forcery. The forcerers are their phy- ficians and cure them o f their difeafes by thraihing them.. Inftances o f various c h e a t s p u t on them by their forcerers. Though fuperftitious, arenot afraid o f darknefs: yet feem to have fome ^ o f f p n t s a ^ a future life. Refpeft, but do not worlhip mfefts o f the mantis Kina. Do not worfhip the moon. Kolbe’s miftakes with refpeft to this point correfted. Chriftianity taqght at Tygerhoek by a Morav.an who was ac cu fed o f finifter praftices. No remains o f religion here at prelent. Two Hottentot gins pay them a vifit. Their odd behaviour The author endeavours in vain to hire a driver for the exP „arUrlleneft a lad agrees to go as far as Zwellendam with them. Sloth and .dleneis o f the Hottentots. Hard fate and fenfible refleftions o f a Have. Regifter o f the weather for Auguft. Heffaquas kloof. A fmgular dl^ d^ among the horfes. The Landroft o f Zwellendam offers. him a better team o f oxen. State o f the weather at that place. Zebr“ "nd Sua| f “ ’ both fpecies o f the wild horfe. The former do not fear the hyun , but guard the other cattle from its attacks. Both forts eat Eft. and a more hardv than the common horfe, and might be ufed for drawing. Misfortune o f a man who harneffed fome quaggas to I i they were properly tamed. Riet valley. Language o f the Hottentots compared with that o f the Snefe Hottentots Their mufical nft u- ments and tobacco-pipes. Curious method o f fmoking. Their card- playing, improperly fo called by the colonifts, p . 131- C H A P. VL J o u r n e y e rom Z w e l l e n d am t o M usole -B-a y . Black-monkies. Groot Vaders-bofch. Stop a bit, a plant growing there. Lofe their way at night. Saddle-oxen. Vifit .a Hottentot craal and are entertained with milk curdled by being kept in the ikins of
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