Interior Parts of Afri'a. CJ47 



with affagays *, pieces of red hot iron are applied to their 

 note, and their bodies are well rubbed ; but if no figns of 

 life appear, they are committed to the earth next evening. 

 The corpfe is immediately carried out from the hut, and 

 watched by fome of the relations, who do the fame thing for 

 twenty-eight days after it has been buried, in order to pre- 

 vent it from being torn up by wild beaits. 



Our traveller refumed his journey on the 25th, directing 

 his comic towards Fifh River, and on the 29th entered Cat- 

 fraria, where at firft he had to afcend fteep mountains, but 

 towards evening defcended into the level country. After 

 palling through feveral hordes of Caffres, by whom he was 

 in general well received, he arrived at a kraal confiding of 

 127 huts, and containing 1400 inhabitants. As he was here 

 treated with great friendihip, he remained fome weeks ; and 

 having heard from the natives, among whom he faw ieveral 

 European articles, that a (hip had been ftranded on the coaft, 

 at a place lying at the diftance of two days journey, he re- 

 folved to go thither, and prevailed on fome of the Caffres to 

 accompany him. Thev accordingly fet out on the 27th of 

 April, and next evening reached the remains of the vefle], 

 which were lying in a bay between Fifh River and the river 

 St. Lucia. Here they found feveral half-putrid bodies, mod 

 of them pierced with wounds, fcattered about on the (bore, 

 and intermixed with calks, chefts, bales of cotton, and other 

 articles, entirely fpoilt by the fea water and the fun. What 

 chiefly attracted the notice of the Caffres was the iron work 

 belonging to the thin, of which they collected as much as 

 they could. After burying the bodies f, and picking up 

 various articles, among which was a pocket compafs, they 

 let out to return. The compafs, which was not injured, fell 



* The points of their alfagays are hot poifun^c! except when they go out 

 to ut;ack their enemies. 



•)- I his Ihip had been loft in eonfequence of a mutiny which broke out 



among the crew, who firfl murdered their officers, and then ran the vcffel 



on thore. The- crew then landed, and w - >ut in the country, 



facrifice to the climate or were maffacred by the 



CalTrcs. Of the whole fliip's company Tour only efcapeil, and of Ehcfe four 



1 imade their way to the Cape. 



