Nbvembir.' ~ interior part of SkJictiMhta isHaid1^d>hflfi;ofan Ife- '✓Vn/ ptadtrabletforeii; TWoHotteritot^^hofiVilhted tppenetfate' through it from the Houtniqfias fidey aré faid' to hLaVe bèén obliged,, after having made a fmitlefs attempt during't'éh or t«welve;days, to turh-baCk again, hdpjiy' ttrhave reached home in fafoty. They perceived* àLgrtìàt ntiihtìei- ò i : dèphapfry with feveraf broàd! bèafen fràbksL madè1 b / thxifié afiiinalsy but which extended only fmm north to fòuth, fo aé' tóTer- minate and lofe themfelves in thick woods Cither near the lìlóre, or at the range o f mountains Which fepàrates Si't- Jicamrita- from Houtniquas. Buffaloes are likewife’ fóuiid there in great numbers. Krommè-rivier itfelf at its motìth; or where it empties it- fèlf into the fea,- is very-broad and deep ; fo that ihips might lie at anchor in it very commodi'oufly,' i f the fea-breezes and the furge, Which, probably1, are every day varying the ihape o f this coaff, hail not blocked up1 thhiiibUth o f if. Zeekoe-rivtery which in feverah places" had been deep enough to harbour a great numbeVof thofe large animals5 called fea-ccms, (hippopotamus amphibiits* PlàtéTV. Vol. Ih) from- which -if derives fits' name, we now" found fo much choaked- ixp with fand near the fea-iide, that we could' go over it-dry-ihod. In Kromme-rivier, the farmer that lived on the fpot had brought thofe animals to be fo familiar, that I faw them fwimming up and down the river in broad day-light, and often flick their noitrils up out o f the water, in order to. blow themfelves or take breath; On- the heights' near the upper farm on ZeekOe-rivier grew the-bread-tree (br'oofehoam):o f the Hottentots, difcovered vered b$ IfiufplTor T h unb krg , and of wlpch he has given a defcription and drawing by the najpe of Cycqs Caffra, in the Nop.a Adipi. Reg. Sop. Scient. Upf. Vol. II. p. 28.3. Tajh. K Thp pith or marrow (medplla,) whiph abounds ip thp trunk o f this littjle, palm, is colledted and tied up. in dreflgd .cajjf pr Iheep-iLpns, and, then buried in, the earth for tire, lbace, p f feveral weeks, till it becomes fpfficiently mel- I9W apd, tender to be kneaded up with water, into a.paile, of which they afterwards make fmall loaves, or cakes, and bake them, under the alhesj. (For a fuller deicription.of this vide lf- c.) Other Hpttentots, not quite fo nice, nor endued. With patience epough to wait this tedious method o f preparing it, are faid, to,dry apd roaft the marrow, and afterwards make a kind, o f brown frumenty o f it. This cycas. grows likewife near the Drie Fonteins in Langerkioof. In all Sitficamma there were but eight farms. Among Qther rare and curious vegetables, it is faid there is a kind o f fig-tree in the woods here, which is of a lofty- gigan-r tic growth, with undivided leaves ; and the fruit of. it is-.as good, i f not better, than that produced from thofe which are cultivated in our gardens. At Slangen-rivigr, two years before my arrival in thefe, parts, a fhip is faid to have ferit a boat alhore, the crew, of which filled feveral calks with water ; . and. afterwards,, going diredlly on board the Ihips,; fet.fail before any o f the colonifts could come up to fpeak with them. Having had an opportunity, of taking obfervations on, and of laying, down on my map a long tradì of the coaft between Sitficamma and Zondags-rivier, and being obliged to bellow names on two remarkable points projedting from it, I Y y 2 thought
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