. December. us frequently to fip a little o f it juft as it was; for when it was made into coffee or tea, it was ftill more intolerable. To fearch about elfewhere at this time when it was dark, was not only impoffible but dangerous, on account o f the lions. At break o f day we difcovered fome traces which led us to the fountain-head of this land-fpring, which had been clofed up by the trampling of the buffaloes feet; we, therefore, made hafte to dig it open again, when we found iome more" tolerable water to quench our thirft, which was actually infupportable. We frequently made ufe of fugar-candy as a tolerably good palliative for our thirft, during our travels in this hot and fcorching climate; but this did not relieve us for any long time together. At 9 o’clock in the evening the thermometer was at 64, and the next day, being the 4th, at day-break, a good deal of dew having fallen, I found it 1 o degrees lower. We now purfued our journey, taking the lower road by Van Staades-rivier, which at that time was brackiih and rather deep. For want of proper precaution in our Hottentots, our oxen turned back before they got half way over the river, and at the fame time were thrown into eonfuiion and diforder; fo that it was a difficult matter, to fave both them and the waggon from finking. When we had got to the other fide, and were baiting our cattle, we were vifited by eighteen Gonaquas-Hottentots, from a craal which was juft in the neigbourhood This, nation confifted of about two hundred people, who were all graziers, and -at that time dwelt there in two feparate villages. They are certainly a mixture of Hottentots and Caffres, as their language had an affinity with C A P E o r G O O D HO P E . 7 with that of both thefe nations; but in their Utterance, De'c7” b'er_ which was like that of human beings, in the natural blacknefs o f their complexions, in the great ftrength and robuftnefs o f their limbs, and laftly in the height of their ftature, they bore a greater refemblance to the Caffres, fe- veral of whom they likewife had at that time among them. The cloaks o f the Gonaquas are likewife made o f drefled cow-hides, like thofe o f the Caffres. Thefe cloaks are very fupple; a-quality that proceeds partly from being rubbed a good deal, which I myfelf faw performed with ftones on the infide o f them; and partly from the great quantity of greafe, which, -being mixed up with bueku- powder, is rubbed into them. Both fexes are adorned with, and fet a great value upon, brafs rings, which they wear on their arms and legs, as - well as brafs plates o f different fizes and figures, which are fattened in their hair and ears. With refpedt to beads, which, fpeaking o f in a general way, they call Jintela, the fmall red ones are much more coveted than the reft; thefe are called lenkitenka, (Seethe fpecimen o f the Caffre’s language, which I have annexed at the conclufion o f this journal.) The genuine Caffres had, in this point, exadtiy the fame tafte''; but many o f them had got ivory rings, o f the thicknefs and breadth o f about half an inch, and o f fuch a fizeas to be ft rung upon the arms above the elbows. Thefe, however, are worn only by the men ; for which reafon a Caffre, who had fold me his bracelets, feemed extremely diftreffed, faying, that he was now naked about the arms like a woman. Befides that both the Caffres and Gonaquas are very importunate:
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