•Tgjf reafon, tliough he flourifhed liis whip about from right? k/Ew' to left with great dexterity, the beafts not being under much difcipline heaved; continually from larboard to {larboard, fometimes acrofs the road,; and fometimes along-fide o f it; fo that the driver was, not unfrequently obliged to jump off from the waggon, in order to imprefs his fenti- ments with the greater energy on the foremoft oxen of the team. The waggons are fo large , and wide in the carriage that they cannot eafily overturn, and where the road; is worfe than ordinary, the foremoft oxen are ufually led. Up in the waggon fat. a Dutchman, who being much hurt at feeing me on foot, very courteouily obliged me,, together with my fervant,.to get into the waggon,and ride. In.about the fame latitude we were overtaken by a farmer. We, hailed one another, that is, we called to, andfaluted, each other, asfhips do at iea:; and were informed by him, that he was, a Mother-country lad (fo the Europeans are called here), and had: a, wife and - family near the twpntyfour r iv e r s at the diftance q f forty uurs. from thence,, in one o f the prettieft fpots,. to his mind, in the whole country. But I now began to refledt, that neither, T o u r n e fo r t in the Levant,, nor L innaeus in the Lapland mountains, nor any other botanift, had ever gone out a herborizing in a fixryoked waggon, and at the fame time that my ftudies and collections could be in-no wife forwarded by. a carriage o f this kind;, moreover, that although by this means my legs might get fome eafe, the other parts of me would fuffer for. iri in confequence of the jolting of the carriage ; therefore taking to my feet again, I went on till I arrived at the company’s farm. The fteward fteward (or as they call him there, the baas) prefented me *8* with a glafs o f a ftrong-bodied wine, which was by no means adapted to quench my thirft; but the water here was brackiih, and had a fait tafte, and they had no milk nor cows, although there was upon the farm a confider- able number o f horfes and other cattle. The reafon of this was, that in fuch places there is ufually ftationed a guard of foldiers, who care more for wine than milk ; the pafture was likewife greatly in fault, being unfavourable for milch-Cdws, and drying up their milk. I therefore took leave of the baas, an appellation given to all the chriftiaris hefe, particularly to bailiffs and farmers. The next farm belonged to a peafant, who was a native o f Africa. I now took it into my head for the lirft time, to make a'frial of this people’s,fo much boafted hofpitality;. but unluckily the man himfelf was gone to the review at the Cape, and had left only a few Haves at home, under the Command of an old Crone, who faid that the bed-clothes were locked Up. I could eafily perceive, that ihe had as little defire to harbour me, as 1 had to ftav with her. It wtfs how already dafk, but notwithftanding this and my ftiff and wearied legs, I refolved to go on to another iarm- lioufe, that appeared in fight. We milled our Way in a dale, and wandered among the thickets and bullies. . The fackalls, or African foxes, now began their nightly fere- nade, pretty much in the fame notes as our foxes in Europe ; frogs and OWls filled up the concert With their horridly plaintive accompaniment. At length We came to a little fifing ground, whence Wh could again difcern the farm, and difcover the fight road. A gfiard h f dogs, Which in Africa
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