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" the Big House," to the Hansens ; and " the Garden 

 House," which has been deserted for some years. 

 We went over the Dutch fort, where there is 

 nothing worth seeing, the garrison, commandant 

 included, numbering only half-a-dozen all told. 



The following morning, Freeman and I went to 

 see the Fort of Christiansburg, in a phaeton pulled 

 and pushed by about a dozen stout negroes, who 

 got over the ground at a good pace. 



It was a splendid old place, on a rock jutting 

 out into the sea, and must have cost a large 

 sum to build, as it is all of solid masonry, 

 and some of the apartments are very spacious and 

 lofty. It was sold to the English, with other coast- 

 possessions, by the King of Denmark, about a dozen 

 years ago, for £10,000, and was then in good 

 repair. It is now quite uninhabitable, being a 

 heap of ruins. Major de Ruvignes informed me 

 that there was very good shooting to be had some 

 distance in the interior, the game being leopards, 

 wild cattle, a very large kind of antelope, wild 

 boar, bush turkeys, guinea fowl, spur fowl, 

 partridges, quail and wild fowl. In the River 



