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of a few individuals which still harbour in this stream, under 
the protection of a direct law. We had not long halted at 
Waggonmaker's Valley, when an express from hiénd-quarteri 
overtook us, announcing the surrender of the colony, and 
directing Colonel Gibbs to return with his regiment to Cape 
"Town, while we were ordered to continue our route to Tulbagh. 
With this view, we marched on the i9th to Eykeboom; and 
on the 20th arrived at the end of our journey. 
' * Within four miles of Tulbagh, we had to pass through a 
narrow tortuous defile, called Roodsand Kloof. The corres- 
pondence between the sides and angles of this intricate pass, 
suggests the idea that it was originally formed by the violent 1 
disruption of the mountain mass which it traverses. ‘The | 
precipice, on both sides, is clothed with shrubs, and animated 
by flocks of large baboons, and the Little Berg River is seen 
forcing its way among the rocky ncn V PR at 
the bottom of the chasm. i 
“ The village of Tulbagh, the only one in the district of 
that name, consists of about thirty houses, disposed along one 
side of a street, through which a stream of water has hósk 
conducted, for the purpose of irrigating an equal number of 
gardens that occupy the other side. It stands near the 
northern extremity of a valley, twenty miles long, and five or 
six miles in breadth, inclosed within deep mountainous 
ridges. This valley is a sort of table-land, being elevated 
three or four hundred feet above the level of the country, 
toward the coast.  Owing to this elevation, it enjoys a 
milder temperature, and the constant supply of water from 
the mountain streams renders it more fertile than most parts 
of the colony. The landrost, or chief magistrate, resides near 
Tulbagh, and the court of Hemraaden meets there to discuss _ 
the affairs of the district. A small neat church adorns one 
end of the village, and the parsonage stands Minimes at 
the other. | 
*'The avowed object of our expedition to this remote : 
place, was to administer the oath of allegiance to the landrost 
and leading men of the district, and, at the same time, to 
impress on the minds of the boors an exalted idea of the 
