9S VOYAGE IN" SEARCH 



ving arrived at places fomewhat more ele- 



d, \\r began to fee a few antelopes, but they 



off at loo great a diftance for us to be able to 



It them. 

 It wa> two hours after dark before we arrived 

 at Bottelary, at the houfe of Nfc Boiman. The 

 letter of recommendation which M. Gordon had 

 I n me to this worthy cultivator, procured us 

 a very friendly reception. It was fupper-time, 

 and he was at table in the midft of his numerous 

 family. He immediately invited us to take 

 a place bciide him, and prefented us with a 

 ftrong agreeable wine of the growth of Bot- 

 telary, which fome merchants of the town fell 

 at a great price for Conftancia ; it is, however, 

 much inferior; and indeed M. Boiman ob- 

 served to us, that it could be got at a twelfth 

 part of the price of the other. 



M. Bofman, infulated in the midft of fands, 

 on a fmal 1 fpot of land fit for culture, was natu- 

 rally eager for news; but the manner in which 

 nfclves- undcrftood to him was cx- 

 : lively trOublcfomc, for our black interpreter 

 i flill more ignorant than we had till then 

 Ittght him. After having parted a long time 

 in Giving jrcry little, wc retired to take fome repofe, 

 ftf ve were much m need. There was 



nOt one Of us who did not envy the peaceable 

 life le^lby this refpecUblc man, in the middle of a 

 H family, 



