ifàSJ . FvBrtfaryt i ô v o -Gm the i jth j at' ieven o'clock, th® thermometer was at 64, arid the whble clay was overcaft and rainy. We fawn k kdedae, iilnd our. Hottentot markfiuan,;1 whai-had been courting."¿long' Zondags-rivier, informed usy that he had ebfer.ved one o f the fea-cows there, had heir calf riding on her bach, .'when -Ihe- carrie up; to the furface o£: the water* m b order ' th breathe ;• but that as foon a«’ ihe had got fcerit of him, ihe breathed with the edge of her noftrils only out of the water; and each time after ihe had breathed^ «Jived, orducked. her head forward, with fetch nice exadtnefs, that .her calf likewife appeared with the extremity of her noftrils only above-the furface of the water, and was able to blow herfelf too. • 1..' 3 On the 1 4th we came to Kuga the thermometer, at five in the afternoon, was at 72 degrees. ' ,• On the 15th, the thermometer,, about dawn, was ait 6a. We faw fome. buffaloes, and three Hottentot fugitives, and paid another Vifit to the fait-pans, with the view o f catching infects. At noon,, in the fhade, thedherrho- meter was at go degrees. W e paid a vifit to a little craal o f Gafires, which had lately removed to Zwartkops-rtvier ■; and went to the upper part o f this river, to vifit a colonifl? o f the name of G e r t Sk k p p k k , who had long refided there, partly in conformity to fome orders off government,- 'and partly in diredt oppofition to them: for- government, Which, though it had long employed laud-furveybrs, w-aSWet :left totally in the dark with refpedt to the geography o f the country, had not permitted the colonifts to cultivate or- dwell farther to the eaftward- \\i.-d.VLtfabeliaauw-rmkr, but i, ... : had had left them at liberty to ibhabit What part they pleaied F to the foüth of Camdebo;-in confeqherteé 6f which, this W W fhrewd peafant had gone rdUnd about by the way of Camdebo from the Cape to this place, 'to take poffeffion of it ; and, upon this pretence, had got af charter for the tenure d f it ; when, oh the contrary, hè would' have beeh feverely pun Wheel, had hé gone by-the' nearer and; better road. Wè Were tdfaJl^ difpappointed in our hopes of fUrnifhing ©lirfclves with bread at this placeras the farmer hitnfelf had chofen to be without it for fome days, fooner than grind the flour in- hié hand-hiilk CobffeqUently,' Wè Kvéd fome time- entirely upon fleih. Prom the 5th of February* hitherto, we had been provided with fome very coarie meal, ' or gurgions, which-our Hottentots, with-the addition of a moderate' quantity o f water, Had' e'vtery day kneaded into dough, ’ and made up into lbavOs Of final!cakes efi fcven of eight inches diameter, afrd' about half an inch thick : thefe were baked 011 the ground, which had bteen previOufly1 heated by our fires, with- great eafe- arid< readi-' UêfS, Hv covering them iqrwellwith’warm afhes and a few- live -céids. ' lxnnir.1 ' A fihall fbeiety 'o f‘ '‘Gdkjemans Hottentots, whofe an- ceftors, at the time that the Dutch invadfed this- p a r to f the continent; : inhabited the’ tradt of’ country about T'able- tmuntain- '-and 'GbWftaàtidi riôvr 'lived rin friendly tarns with thé farmer above-mentioned. B j whatl couM uirderftand, this little fociety had-Icing-; been vTithout fhe'ékerci'fè o f any perfonal authority ¡taiong’ them, Without beggars1, and with- oht any penal l'aùri- ând'ftlattités,' as Well- s's1 without crirhes' afid mifdemeanors ; having been united-and: governed* only* -itofe a by
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