A CAPE CART JOURNEY. 



traveller. A large wool-washing industry has latterly- 

 sprung into existence at Uitenhage, and the place 

 has considerably increased in size and wealth. We 

 soon found our way to the hotel, had some luncheon, 

 got out the horses and traps, packed our luggage, 

 bade good-bye to two or three friends who had come 

 out from the Bay with us, and, with much blowing 

 of the horn, set forth. 



The Cape cart is a typical and extremely 

 serviceable vehicle, having two wheels, a canvas tent 

 or tilt — open front and rear, and two seats placed 

 one behind the other, which will accommodate at a 

 pinch four persons. All the passengers sit looking 

 to the horses, the hinder seat forms a locker, and 

 behind this is a swing board, as in a dog-cart, 

 whereon can be packed a reasonable amount of 

 luggage. To our Cape cart, which our Afrikander 



guide, Mr. F , drove himself, were harnessed two 



of the best horses — a chestnut and a bay — I ever 

 saw in South Africa, Well-bred from imported 

 English sires, well-groomed — a very unusual thing 

 ■ — and standing higher than the average Cape horse, 

 they pulled us gaily along throughout the whole of 

 the rough journey, and, indeed, proved altogether too 

 fast for the more sober pair that drew the buggy and 

 its fortunes. The Cape buggy — also two-wheeled — 

 sports a hood which lets down and is closed behind, 

 and only accommodates two passengers. We found 

 the two horses recently purchased with the buggy 

 hardy, useful animals, but terribly low in condition, 

 and literally covered with ticks. Evidently they 

 had been running on the open veldt, and had not 

 been groomed, and in consequence the ticks, which 

 abound in most parts of the bush veldt, had acquired 



