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tion, he learns a variety of tricks highly diverting to these 
people, who cannot boast of much refinement of taste. 
The Cape baboon is a variety of the Simia Hamadryas. 
They may be seen in large flocks, skipping along the 
mountain-cliffs, and attain to great size and strength. lt is 
not altogether safe to get among such a flock; and I have 
been more than once not a little alarmed on finding myself 
unexpectedly in the midst of two or three dozen of them, 
prowling about for roots and berries. ^ Another favourite 
among the boors is the Green Monkey, (Simia Sabea,) 
Which abounds in the forests, and is one of the most 
beautiful and gentle of the tribe; but, like the rest of its 
congeners, full of curiosity and mischief. 
* I remarked one instance of delicacy in the domestic 
economy of the boors, which I should never have dreamed 
of at the further extremity of Africa. ‘They never kill any 
of their poultry till after they have been cooped up for a 
month or six weeks, and fed on grain; nor do they eat any 
of their eggs, except such as are laid during their confine- 
ment. I was at a loss to account for this piece of affecta- 
tion, as I thought it, but was satisfied of its propriety from 
a single hint—that the domestic Hottentots in these families 
are all fed, for the most part, on maize or wheat, boiled in 
the grain. Pr. ; * : 7 ; 
* The farmers in the remote parts of the Colony um but 
Sparingly provided with household furniture. Deprived of 
the ox-hide and the calabash, the boor would be as destitute 
. 85 the South Sea Islander without the cocoa trees: In his 
hands, the calabash is a perfect Proteus; you see it in all 
corners of the hut, in the form of plates, bowls, jugs, bottles, 
- drinking cups. 'The ox-hide has more employments 
than Scrub, in the play. It is a substitute for all sorts of 
Cordage; it is made into drag-ropes for the waggon, head- 
stalls for the oxen, bridles for the horses, cordage for 
thatching the hut, slips for bottoming the beds, chairs and 
Stools, Pickling-tubs for his beef, and feld schoon for him- 
self and family, ace stia 
* With all these drawbacks on his comfort, it must never- 
