35° A V O Y A G E t o t h e o I ' t <. I \i j ;•> o T 4 A ; j - „»775- the wild inhabitants of the country, (in all likelihood the N o vem b e r . v- r<> -... I s > r r| j ., ,,v r-,> ' c f • ' T fT Bojhies-metPj who took frotn them a brace óf piffols apt ’their T clothes ; 1 though aftrèr a little Oonfideratiori, arici ‘oh the iailbré earneffly entréatirig them riri'their knees, tìiey ftiffer-' ed them to keep their boat and oars, arid rètürn to théir difafiroùs ifland, as'to an afÿÎum; whence fh ê y a t length, together With fome chore of th'e crewi proceeded in a bârlç; Cnade out of the wreck to'the northward,'and càmè to a nation that abounded in cattle and elephants teeth, (pro-’ bably the Caffres) where they were very kindly'received, &c. On recollecting myfelf, and comparing'mis 'account’ with one I had from the còlpnifts, it appears to me that this ihip was wrecked right before the 'mouth óf Zohdags- rivier ; as about twenty or thirty years' àgó,“ a imoke was' feen proceeding from the ifland lituated there. A'farmer o f the name of V eré ir a , who at that time was a hunting o f elephants in this diftridt, had bought of. the Hottentots a piitol and a piece of red cloth, which they fàid they had got of fome people who had come to thém from Tea. The colonifts likewife informed me, that a year after this' event, a dogger was fent from the Cape, at thè requeft o f the Engliih Eaft-India company, in order to fearch for the above-mentioned iilands, and the goods that were left there ; but that the captain came back, as they thought on purpofe, without executing his commiflion. It perhaps would itili pay for the labour to build a boat at Zon- dags-rivier, with a view to fearch for thefe final! iilands ; but in order for people coming from the fea to find them, it would be neceifary that fomebody ihould have previouily obferved the true latitude on the continent direftly oppofitè ?. to them > after which, by making, fignals by fires, the >775- . . . be. difcovered. I often faw the above-mentioned iilands from Point Padrón in the harbour ó f Krakekamma. . The farm near Sea-cow-river, where we took up our heaó quarters from the 15th to. the 30th, belonged to an hqneit oíd coloniff, by nation, i f I remember right, a Heflian. ■?.e: 1 1 1 a i S S f e ; a£hv?, ingenious man, and confequently- had got his farm into the heft order; tipon which he had built many more tenements, than we had feen on any had'hitherto vifited in the whole courfe of our journey. The main hody o f the houfe alone confifted of H i ro°ms. He had a great number of Hottentot fervants, as. cattie y, but had laid the foundation o f his for- 5$ hunting elephants. Having been a great traveller ^ 58^ ? ln his youth, he wiftied to render us every fervice th ^ H y in his. power ; offering to aifift us with a good Hottentot guide, who was at the fame time an ¡excellent fliot, as foon as he heard that we intended to expofe our- % ^ :tp aíl the dangers , and hardfiiips that might arjfe in tlie comfc o f an expedition of one hqndred leagues, between that place and Bruntjes Hoogte, for the lake of botanizing and hunting. But, unluckily for us, the corn-har- veft wasnow approaching, it beginning on the 23d of this ■ month; befides which, many q f his Hottentot labourers - were laid up with a bilious fever; M therefore Obliged to wait till the haryeft was over, and to forward it with all the aififtance my Hottentots could give. In the mean time he delegated to me the province o f attending and. curing the fick,.. and that with the greater confi
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