CHAPTER IV. 
JOURNEY FROM THE BORDERS OF THE COLONY, TO THE VILLAGE OF 
GRAAFFREYNET. 
I RODE immediately to the house, but did not dismount, as I 
expected that the master of the place, who was standing at the sheep- 
fold a few yards off, would, according to colonial hospitality, as soon 
as the first salutations were over, welcome me to his abode and invite 
me to enter. Neither the master, however, nor his wife, ever came 
near us ; but remained the whole time at the fold, evidently with the 
intention of keeping away in order to avoid all communication. But 
two men of the family, and several women and children, came and 
stood round me : their complexion struck me as unpleasantly fair and 
colorless, their features as disagreeably sharp, and the expression of 
their countenances, as wild and senseless. How much of this singular 
impression, was to be attributed to my having been for several months 
accustomed to Hottentot and Bushman features and complexion, and 
to my having seen none but two or three sun-burnt white people ; or, 
