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residence at Stellenbosch, where he was engaged in his business, 

 to keep always on hand in his store a large quantity of wild 

 hemp for sale to the natives. 



The poison with which the Bushmen tip their arrows, ren- 

 dering them such dangerous and terrible weapons, is extracted 

 from the " Cestrum venenalum^^ 



Among the animal products of Genaaden Dal of importance 

 in a scientific point of view is Hyrazeuma, a substance obtained 

 from the urine of the Cape Marmot {^Hyrax Capensis'). It is 

 of a dark-brown colour, somewhat tenacious, and nearly hard, 

 of a very penetrating odour, and is found in cavities resembling 

 a molehill. This article is made use of with much effect in 

 hysterical complaints by the Hottentots. Dr. Roser is of 

 opinion, that this Cape Marmot is in all probability the same 

 animal which Martin Luther, in Leviticus, c. xi, v. 5, and 

 Proverbs, c. xxx, v. 26, has translated by the word " kaninchen" 

 (conies). 



On our way from Genaaden Dal to Caledon, to which there 

 is an excellent level road, we perceived a large number of silver 

 poplars, with pendent nests of finches. On a single tree we 

 counted more than forty such pendent nests, constructed in a 

 very singular manner. 



Caledon is a cheerful, ambitious little town, important as the 

 centre of the wool trade, as also for the thermal springs in the 

 neighbourhood. These, situated about two English miles out- 



* The Dyaks of Borneo poison their arrows with the juice of Strijchnos Tieute 

 and Antiaris Toxicaria (Upas). 



