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fecn the driver, when he has found expedition needful,
make them keep whatever pace he thought proper either
trot or gallop (a gait performed or kept up with difficulty
by .European oxen), and that with as much eafe as
i f >e Was driving horfe-sf- This immenfi whip, the. only
thing with which they guide the team, the drivers ufe fo
dexteroufly, that they make them turn at corner, with the
utmoft nicety; hitting even the leading pair, in whatever
pa,rt they pleafe'. The blows- thus given muft’ inflia
intolerable pain, or thefe flow animals could- never be
brought to go with the velocity- they do at tKe Cape.
Thefe footy charioteer likewife manage horfes with the
lame dexterity. ‘ , T q -lee one of them .driving three, four,
five, and fometimes fix pair, in hand* with one of thefe
long whips, as I have often done with great fupprife,
would inake the moft complete maftet o f the .;whip in
England cut a defpicablefigure. Carriages arc not vaéöjs
numerpus^ at the Cape-, as the inhabitants, in general travel
in covered waggons, which better fuit the roughnefs of the
country. The governor and fome f e w o f the principal:
people keep coaches, which are a good deal in the Englifh
flile, and always, drawn hy fix ho^legi. The ©ndy eharioilr:
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I faw there belonged to the governor'; I however heard there 1787«
Weçe foirie -Others.. f . ‘ ; November.
November 1 ith. Having got on board fuch anirttàls, pro*
vifk&^&c. as Wê cbüld flow, the commodore,‘with all the
officers that had lodgings on Ihore, embarked. Previous to
the commodore’s embarkation he gave a public dinner to
fome. of the gentlemen of the town and-the officers of his
fleèt^' -The Dutch governor' Wâs to- have been- of the
party,' but by foine unforefeen event was detained in
the country, where he had been, for fome day^ 'beförèi
Commodore Phillip had his band of mufic on Ihore upon
the docafioo, and the day was fpent with great cheerfulnefs
and conviviality*.
13th.' About half paft one o’clock we'failed from.the
Cape of Good Hope. A fmall American Ihip had arrived
during the forenoon, bound oh a trading voyage to China,
with lèverai paflèngers on board. We learnt from her,
that thé Hartwell Eaft India-man had been loft* by bordering
too clofe on the ifland o f Bonavi-fta, in' order to land fame
recruits, who had mutinied^|ari'd occafioned great dtforder
and confufion in the flfip. It gave us pleasure to hear from
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