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smoking, was accepted with warm expressions of thankfulness ; but 
he was much less importunate in begging, and less talkative, than his 
nation usually are. He was even timid: this might be occasioned 
by his being alone as a Bachapin, among so many strangers ; for 
numbers always give to savages a degree of boldness, and sometimes 
insolence, of which, under other circumstances, they exhibit no signs. 
On coming to me as I sat in the waggon, he exclaimed, Koosi, 
Koosi ! (rich chieftain) ; and when I endeavoured to assure him that 
I was not such, that I had but little property in the waggon, and but 
few oxen, he significantly shook his head, as if to express that he 
could not believe me. 
A young Kokung (Kokoon or Kokoong) was shot in the plain by 
Speelman. This Hottentot took so much delight in hunting, that he 
was generally the foremost in parties of this kind, and was perhaps one 
of the most successful. It was the duty which had been allotted to 
him ; yet, when circumstances demanded it, he was employed in a 
variety of others, and was found to be, as a Hottentot, active, intelligent, 
and useful ; though requiring always the superintendance and guidance 
of a master. Having been longer in my service than most of the 
others, he seemed to consider himself entitled to the privileges of an 
old servant, and to have acquired some degree of attachment to me, 
which, though often dormant, was, to do him justice, oftener awake. 
^th. Taking a walk this morning round our station, I observed 
growing in rocky places, a handsome species of Aloe*, which the 
Bachapins call tdJcwi, and which apparently was of the same kind as 
one seen near the Kygariep. I here met with, for the first time, a re- 
markable kind of Mesemhryanthemum f , which may be reckoned in 
* Resembling Aloe saponaria ; but it was probably a new species. 
f Mesemhryanthemum alo'ides, B. Catal. Geogr. 2197. Planta acaulis, radice fusi- 
fbrme. Folia spathulata, basi connata, acuta, margine Integra, supra plana, subtus 
convexa, duplo latiora quam crassa, obscure viridia punctis albidis conspersa. Flos 
sessilis flavus. 
This plant, together with ten other new species raised in England fi-om seed collected 
on the journey, have been already made known to botanists by an author whose extensive 
knowledge of this numerous genus, and whose experience in the cultivation of vegetables 
