March * bought too thirty odd pounds of gunpowder, with a O-vO fmall quantity of which we filled feveral horns, which we kept near at hand; the remainder we emptied into a leathern bag, and locked it up in my cheft, by way of keeping it out of the way of the lighted pipes of the Hottentots. We took with us ihot of different fizes, about feventy pound in weight, with a tolerable flock of balls, lead, and moulds for calling. It is certain, that the expence and quantity of this ammunition, was much more than we were advifed to take with us, or than I myfelf thought neceffary. On our return to the Cape, however, after an eight month’s journey, it was almoft all ufed. I would therefore advife every body, who may hereafter undertake an expedition of this kind, to flock themfelves well with powder and ihot. Every ihot does not take place, and not a little is expended in the fhooting o f fmall birds; fome too mull be fpent in fhooting at marks. Be- fides, it may happen, as it did to me and my party, that for feveral weeks together, one may have little elfe to live upon than what falls before one’s g u n ; not to mention, that prudence requires one to be prepared with ammunition againft the hoftile attacks of the Bofhies-men and Caffres. As the colonifts here are enjoined by the laws to feize and. bring to the Cape all fuch as travel about the country without being able to ihew a permifiion in writing for that purpofe, I therefore folicited and obtained the governor’s pafs, requiring that I fhould pafs every where fred and unmolefted; and at the fame time that the inhabitants fhould affifl me as far. as lay in their power, on receiving a reaa reafbnable compenfation. In another letter, the people belonging to the warm baths in Hottentots Holland were enjoined to find me in lodging; for this remedy I was re- folved to try againft the rheumatic pains I experienced in confequence of the cold, to which I had been expofed in the Antarctic circle. •77Î- March. S E C T .
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