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other manner than it is for I the poor: 1 They all tfoaft Febmairy. . ' . • r» \ * ■ their crnitjtt in* the • alhes,-; in the - fame fenple w a y ; and almoft every one o f them dreiifes his meat by boiling it over the coals, as it is a very uncommon thing for a , Hottentot to have earthen veffels of his own manufacturing, for the purpofe-of boiling or ftewing his victuals ; and as the Hottentots abfolutely deteft fait, they muft eat their meat frefh, or elfe dried in the fun ; though upon recollection, it occui^s to me, that the fame pnrpofe may be ferved by the-addition o f a-little more or lefsfat. >tn Confequently fat or greafe w»as here, « and is univerf.illy among the Hottentots, who live at a -diftance from the Dutch, one o f the principal'comforts o f life ; and is, indeed, the only gratification afforded to this nation by -its herds o f cattle; and which is' likely to prove a motive fufficiently powerful, to induce them -to be eager after the acquilition o f this kind of wealth : at the fame time, I do not mean to exclude other motives, which in all likelihood co-operate with-this ; fuch as, for ■ inftance, fome refpedt to the honour and advantage o f being able to maintain feveral fervants, or cow-herds, as well as the divine plea- fure of doing good to their fellow-creatures. To -the ftimulus-of this latter -inducement, I look, upon the Hottentots to be by no means infenfible; as 1 haVe: feen them difplay the greateft hofpitality to each other, when in the courfe o f their bufinefs, - or merely for pleasfure, they have ■vififed one another from a great diftance. Befides, it is 'probable, that in the other Well-governed Hottentot craals, iany more than in this, no member of fociety is abandoned to any coniiderable dfegrfee o f indigence and mifery. But vidla in C A P E OF G O O D HO P E . 313 in confequence of the farther migrations o f the colonifts 'J76- *■ . • o F eb ru ary . hither, and of the quantity of glafs-beads and other com- modifies which I at this time brought to market here, and for which I found a good fale among the fair fex, I think I can plainly forefee a fpeedy and not inconfiderable revolution in the turn of mind and manners of this fociety. On the 1 6th there arofe fo violent a ftorm from the north-weft, that we did not dare to fet out on our journey, for fear left our waggon fhould be overfet on the plains. Towards night, however, the wind chopped about to the fouth-eaft, and was lefs violent, being accompanied with rain. On the 17th drizzling rain. At firft fetting out we palled two Caffre families juft removed hither, and afterwards went to the fouthward into Krakekamma, palling by feveral hollows or bogs o f different lizes, which contained very few faline particles, but on the other hand, a great deal of rain-water : thefe I have diftinguilhed in the map, by the fame marks which. I have ufed for pointing out the falt-pans. I made this round, merely for the fake of taking a curfory view of two harbours or inlets, which I was told a fmall Dutch veflel had lately vilited, and taken pof- ieffion of, as it were, in the name of the government at' the Cape, by eredting a fmall ftone of marble, on which they put the company’s mark. The Captain of this veilel i-s faid to have informed his employers, that there was good anchorage in both thefe harbours, and particularly in that which lay to the. fouth; : which yet I did not give myfelf time to look at, but have notwithftanding laid it down on -my map from the relation o f others, and diftin- V o l . II. S s , guiihed


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