*77?- ever, I took leave of him, not without being much af- fedted with a benevolence as uncommon to be met with, as undeferved on my part. In my great zeal for botany, I did not pay the leaft attention to my itiff and wearied legs, but hobbled as well as I could over the dry and torrid hills, moving all the day long as if I was upon ftilts. Towards evening I felt myfelf lefs weary, as, by a continuation of the motion o f walking and jumping, my limbs were grown more pliable. Not far from the farm we had a brook to crofs, where we met with a female {lave, who very officioufly and obligingly ihewed us the lhalloweft places. She feemed to lay her account in receivingsfome amorous kind o f acknowledgment, in which ihe could not be otherwife than difappointed, as ihe had the misfortune to meet with a delicate as well as a weary philofopher. In the evening I arrived in good time at a farm, where the father and mother were from home; but Majier John and Mifs Sufey gave me houfe-room notwithftanding. It was a handfome building, and, like all the reft on the road, com- pofed partly of brick, and partly o f well-wrought clay, but without any other floor than the bare earth. I had intended to go on farther, but when I faw a large chum on the floor, and heard from Sufey’s own mouth, that they had thirty milch-cows, you may imagine that I did not .thinIt of going, efpecially as. I had feldom found milk very plentiful lince my arrival in Africa. The farm was faid to yield about three thoufand two hundred buihels of corn yearly, which was from, ten to fifteen times the quantity that was Ibwn. A good wheaten loaf, light and well-baked, and about two feet in diameter, was fet upon {he C A P E OF G O O D H O P E . the table, and of this, with fome milk arid freih butter, * *u. I made an excellent meal. They feemed to take a great pleafure in entertaining me, and (though they ftrove to conceal their laughter) appeared highly entertained in their turn witb my broken Dutch, and my apparatus for catching and preferving infedts. My colledtion of herbs they liked very well, as they themfelves prepared a kind of plaifter with herbs and wax. The next morning they brought me coffee, which I left untouched, it being full of grouts, and, according to the cuftom of the country, as weak as fmall beer. However, I fet out again on my journey, quite lively and briik after the high treat I had had of milk. As my box of infedts was already quite full, I was obliged to put a whole regiment o f flies and other infedts round the brim of my hat. On the road we paired a cow-keeper, who was roafting a fmall tortoife, the fleih of which tailed like that of a chicken. Two or three miles farther on w e met with a ihepherd, that was regaling himfelf with roaft lamb at his mailer’s expence. My companion, w h o kn ew the fu ll value o f his libe rty, ex-- preffed great fatisfadtion at finding, that poor flaves had fometimes an opportunity of revenging themfelves on their tyrants by a breach of truft. He informed me, that it was common for ihepherds, who had rigid and niggardly matters, when' a ewe had twins, to keep always- one of them for themfelves, and very often the other too, whenever they had an opportunity of concealing the theft. At three o’clock we came to another farm. Here I had fome converfation with the old lady of the houfe about her gout, which ihe had in her hands and feet, and at the fame time con-!--
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