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The baggage -waggon carried tent, camp-stools, 

 table, and cooking utensils ; hams, tongues, and 

 cheeses in profusion ; salt and dried fish, biscuits, 

 wax candles, soap, and oilman's stores, or in other 

 words, sauces and pickles. The luxury of beer, so 

 palatable to an Anglo-Indian, we were compelled to 

 dispense with in consequence of its bulk; but we 

 provided ourselves instead with a few dozens of 

 brandy, and a small barrel of inferior spirits for the 

 use of the followers. Crevices and empty spaces 

 were filled up with spades, pickaxes, hatchets, 

 sickles, and joiner's tools, together with nails, screws, 

 spare bolts, and linchpins ; and as if all these were 

 not weight sufficient, no less than eighteen thousand 

 leaden bullets, duly prepared — to say nothing of a 

 large additional supply of that precious metal in 

 pigs, to be converted into instruments of destruction 

 as occasion required — were added to our stock. 



At GraafF Reinet we engaged six additional 

 Hottentots under a formal contract of service for 

 six months, executed in presence of the Clerk of 

 the Peace. As these were our only associates for 

 many months, and will occasionally appear in pro- 

 minent reUef, I may be here excused consigning 

 them to print, under the appellations of Piet-van- 

 Roy, a man of mixed breed, Cobus Jacobus, John 

 April, Claas September, Frederick Dangler, and 

 Ethaldur Wildman. Nearly all of these being 

 fronk voJk, or in other words, discharged criminals, 

 no agreement less binding than the one we had 

 made would have answered our purpose. But 



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