ig if mendations beftowed upon it by K o lbe, who cries it up as having no equal, and being ftored with the moft coftly plants frorn all parts of the world. At the end of the pleafure-garden and to the eaft of it, is the menagérie, palifaded and railed off, in which are ihewn ojlrkhes, cafuaries, zebras, and fometimes different forts of antilopes, and other fmaller quadrupeds, almoft all of them natives of the country. In another partition are kept various foreign and domeftic fowls. The fortifications lie fome hundred paces north o f the town, being ieparated from it by a verdant mead, which is cut through with canals and roads. On both fides of the town towards the ftrand, batteries are placed ; and to the fouth, where the land is higher, are feen the burial grounds o f the Chinefe and free Malays that five at the; Cape ; as well as one belonging to the Dutch, which has a . wall round it. But what difgraces the town is a gallows, with racks and other horrid inftruments of torture, which the governor, has lately ordered to be erected in the place of honour, i f I may fo call it, or oppofite to the fortification in the above-mentioned meadow. Befides this, the well- known hardnefs of heart o f the Dutch fettled in the Indies, has ihewn itfelf here by two other gibbets ereCted within fight of the town, viz. one on each fide o f it. On the 30 th of April, being the morning after we came to anchor, I for the firft time fet foot upon African ground. The firft thing I did was to wait upon the governor, Baron J oa ch im von Pl e t t e n b e r g , to whom I paid my refpeits, and intimated my wilh to live under his protection, As foon as he was informed of the nature of my my appointment, he granted my requeft without the leaft Âprü. difficulty ; and foon offered me the privilege o f pradhfing phyfic, as I had given him to underftand, that it had been my principal ftudy. Upon the whole, I received great civilities from many members, of the regency, particularly from the commander of the troops, Baron van P rehm, who was an African born ; but, what is very rare with his countrymen, and to his honour muft be mentioned, he had vifited Europe, and was a lover of fcience. Neither muft it be paffed over in filence, that he had ferved in the capacity of a Pruflian aide de camp in the laft German war ; and, as a proof of his having been in the wars, bore about him the fears o f lèverai wounds. | As it may give pleafure to fuch as are fond o f heating that merit meets with its reward, I wifi add; that he returned inÿéfted with the place he now enjoys, and' about thé fame time made his fortune, by marrying the fineft woman in the whole colony. S E C T .
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