Strange method o f cure ufed b y .the author. H ottentot-b all. T h e bee. Monkey-dance. Polygamy o f the Hottentots. P itifu l cafe ot an old polygamift. Marriage ceremony performed among the H o t tentots by fp rinkling the bride and bride-groom with urine. Manner o f burying their dead. Bury alive or expofe fuch children as have loft their mothers. Starve their old people to death. Extenuation of their crime. Preparations for the expedition through the defert. W h ite ants eaten by the Hottentots. M ifch ie f done by them. Hottentots imagine the fwarms o f locufts w ith which the country is fometimes over-run, to be fent to them for food. L o cu ft foup. Locufts o f ule In clearing the lands, p. 368. e r r a t a . "page 1, liar I , for A Voyage from Gottenburgh, &c. read Voyage from Gotten- burgh to the Gape. - 1 g, /. 7, for quaae, read quaade. — 40, /. 6 and 7, for iiggar, read liggar. — 64, /. 13, before the ’fquire’s half brother, read or* - 179, /. 3, for Tigerhoek, read Tygerhoek. -«— — 236, /. 15, for wait, read A op. » . . r -*■—— 283* /. 16, Ihouldberead thus: and was befides as well befmeared with foot _andj>;reafe. A V O Y A G E A V O Y A G E TO THE. C A P E o f G O O D H O P E . C H A P . I- A VOYAGE f r o m GOT T ENBURGH, 8 tc. ON the 10th day of January, in the year 177a, I failed from Gottenburgh in the Cajlle o f Stockholm', a ihip belonging to the Swediih Eaft-India Company. The wind was favourable, fo that we foon dif- miffed our pilots, and even in a ihort time loft fight o f the delightful paftures o f Sweden. We found the weather, as it ufually is at this cold feafon, fome- thing xnilder in the open fea, than it was upon the coaft. The Swediih Eaft-Indiaman, the Louifa, deftined for Cadiz, tp take in refreihments there, with money V o l . I. B for IJJZ. January.
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