ore tha 
inge, but produced Sarria and other mischief when too freely used. 
ing by a process of steaming is worth a tri 
ess Opuntia.—And here permit me to speak of the thorn- 
ie 
-d 
1 be spared t 
"n Luderitz at Angra Pequina, where it grew akat: 
e very communication from Herr Luderitz, scarce six mont 
before his untimely decease, informed me that a hungry span of oxen, 
foodless and thirsty, had broken into the enclosure where the cuttings 
were being grown, and had eaten them up to the last square inch. 
My argument, therefore, is very much to this end. If in this Colony 
u 
places legislative interference and Government expenditure for 
its extirpation, what store of food material, good en enough for an occasional 
hařd time, might not be encouraged to propagate itself in precisel 
were only known and propagated of all men. And fu urther, 
ce seems determined to spoil South Africa 2 indulgence 
le ankind had the wit o propano the 
valuable Spek-boom [ Portulacaria afra, Jacq.) all over 
ut and kopjes [hills] which are its natural 
habitat, an exceptionally good food, greedily devoured by horned stock 
and horses, occurring here and there in the greatest abundance, yet 
never artificially propagated. T ean only y fall back or my oft-used o organ 
onder, and hope that in future years some Africander will arise to 
ike ten. spek-booms grow for on one alivo i ee 
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