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HOTTENTOTS TAKEN ILL. 
5 — 7 April, 
5th. At this time I had nearly recovered from all the effects of 
my illness ; but two of my men were now seized with the same dis- 
order, and in two days afterwards, the whole of them were lying sick 
in the tent. None appeared to suffer so severely as I had ; in some, 
the symptoms were hut slight, and more resembling a violent cold. 
It was now my turn to attend on them, for considering that it was I 
who had brought them from their homes, where they would have 
escaped this attack, I felt it more especially my duty to take care of 
them. 
At the end of ten days, all were well again ; excepting Cobus, 
whose age was perhaps the only cause of his remaining indisposed a 
few days longer than the rest. This old man, after making many 
inquiries among the Hottentots of the country, was unable to gain 
any certain tidings of his daughter whom he expected to find at 
Graaffreynet, and on whose account he had taken this long and 
fatiguing journey.* All that he learnt was, that she was alive, and 
had, not long since, removed to another part of the Colony. With 
this intelligence he was obliged to remain satisfied ; and now had no 
other wish left than to return to his friends in the Transgariepine. 
Hans Lucas was more fortunate in his journey, for he regained an 
ox, which he had lost two years before, and which he had relinquished 
all hope of ever seeing again. He accidentally discovered it among 
a herd of cattle belonging to the Drostdy. He immediately recog- 
nised and laid claim to it : and fortunately the circumstances were 
so clear, that it was delivered up to him without hesitation. Hans 
was at that time on a journey to Cape Town, and it was very well 
recollected by the Hottentots who then drove the lariddrost's waggon, 
una Soldanellae. Flores dioici: masculi spicis laxis parum ramosis; foeminei spicis 
brevioribus ; viridi-flavescentuli. Pedicelli breves. Bracteae solitariae. Species 2. Tamils 
Elephantipes, L'Her., aliaque nondum edita." 
The present plant, which has much smaller leaves than the species long known by 
the above name, may be distinguished as the 
Testudinaria montana, B. Catal. geogr. 2912. Folia cordata, semicollapsa, latiora 
quam longa, obsolete nervosa, subtus glauca. 
* See Vol. L p. 542. 
