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family, who blended the moft amiable qualities 

 with great fimplicity of manners. 

 . On the 10th, when the day began to dawn, 

 we rambled over the environs of this charming 

 habitation. M. Bofman's garden prefented to 

 our view moft of the vegetables and fruits of 

 Europe; fine plantations of almond- trees were 

 raifed oppofite to the houfe, and it was fur- 

 rounded with plots of vines, which form the 

 principal wealth of this cultivator. 



As foon as the fun appeared in the horizon, 

 M. Bofman's young daughters feeing us em- 

 ployed in picking up infects, wifhed to contri- 

 bute towards enriching our collection. They ran 

 about the garden with inconceivable agility, and 

 brought us from time to time a very good choice, 

 among the fpecies, the colours of which were 

 the moft brilliant. 



As we were fhortly to fail from the Cape, we 

 had fcarcely time left to vifit the mountains of 

 Franche Hoek. It was with lively regret that 

 we quitted our amiable entertainers. 



We arrived early at Stellenbofch, where we 

 ilopped at the houfe of M. Hoffman. 



The manner in which we were received at Stel- 

 lenbofch formed a ftriking contrail with the free 

 and hearty welcome which we had experienced at 

 Bottelary. We were here in a very handfome 

 village $ but we were wrong in expecting that 

 h 2 frank 



