CHAP. II.] 



LIST OF BAGGAGE. 



39 



. At length, after various delays, the day on which 

 we were destined to start arrived. 



The things taken were distributed as foUows : — 



Pack Oxen. 



Load carried. 



Gross 

 Weight. 



In Cart drawTi by 8 Mules. 







lbs. 



lbs. 



Ceylon 



Canvass Bag, No. 1, — 





Common guns . .112 





Peas, 4.5 lbs. ) 

 Sugar, 4S „ j 



97 



Barrel full of presents 56 





6 pots and 2 kettles . 110 









Assegais . . .56 









Hatchets and spear- 



Stewartson's Os. 



Canvass Bag, No. 2,— 





heads . . . . 25 





Rice, 42 lbs.) 





Fore and after chests. 





Coffee, 42 „ V 



110 



containing small 





Spelter, 25 „ ) 





things, knives, to- 

 bacco, tinder-boxes, 

 flints, choppers, and 



Black Ox. . . 



Skin Bag, No. 1,— 





also caUco and 





Spelter, 75 lbs. ) 

 Dresses, &c. | 



135 



dresses . . . 196 





Biscuits . . . . 53 









Tools .... 23 









4 shooting guns (we 



Red Ox. . 



Skin Bag, No. 2,— 





carried the others) . 36 





Bullets, ^ 





Clothes, books, and per- 





Moleskin Clothes, 1 



130 



sonal effects of An- 



; ■ 



2 Bars lead, f 



dersson and myself . 120 





Shot, Powder, ) 





Astronomical iustru- 



ments, &c. . . . 60 

 Natural history instru- 



Mule . . . 



Tent, 40 lbs. ) 





ments . . .42 





Water, 20 „ h 



90 



Men's sleeping things 





&c. j 





and clothes, about 

 30 lbs. per man . . 210 



1089 



Everytl: 



ling was weighed with a s 



teelyard that I had taken. 



For meat, I only took with me five or six thin 

 goats, as I was quite confident of finding game in the 

 Swakop, where vast quantities had been formerly shot. 

 The day was cool, and we started about eleven o'clock 

 in tlie forenoon. We had been packing the red and 

 black oxen since the early morning ; for as fast as the 

 bags were tied on, they kicked them off or loosened 

 them. The red ox could not be held : he was lashed 

 to a tree, and there packed. As soon as they let him 



