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CONDUCT OF VAN ROYE AND CORNELIS. 
22, 23 July, 
reason it was deemed more advantageous to the expedition, and con- 
ferring some distinction on them, not to limit their duty, in the 
manner which it had been found necessary to do with respect to the 
rest. But during the three months in which they had been in my pay, 
they had Kterally done no work at all ; unless the act of one making 
the horses fast in the evening when they were brought home, and the 
other untying their halters in the morning, could be regarded by 
them as a service of importance enough to entitle them to higher 
wages than any of my other men. Although two of these horses 
were seldom ridden by any but themselves, they left all the actual 
care of them to the other Hottentots. They had carefully avoided 
all the usual business of travelling ; such as cooking their own food, 
lighting a fire, fetching fuel and water, assisting in taking off the 
skin and cutting up the game, drying the meat, greasing the waggon- 
wheels, driving the sheep or oxen when we travelled, cutting branches 
for making a cattle-pound to secure them at night ; as they chose to 
view these employments as beneath the character of a Christian. On 
one occasion when all, excepting Cornells and Stuurman, were either 
hunting or otherwise absent from the town, I gave orders that the 
former should broil a steak for my dinner, but without any hesitation 
he sent me word that he understood nothing of cooking : I was 
therefore obliged to wait till it could be broiled by one of the 
Hottentots. And even, when I have wished to employ these in any 
work above that of a Hottentot, they have invariably made the same 
reply, that they did not understand how to do it. Van Roye once 
told me with a great deal of ease and unconcern, that he did not 
know how to cut up meat into slices for drying ; probably because he 
saw all the other people doing this work. I now told them, that as 
it would endanger the safety of the whole party, to trust the cattle 
any longer to the care of Andries and Stuurman, I appointed them 
to this duty, believing them to be people on whom I might place 
reliance. 
23rd. This morning the Chief's principal herdsman came to my 
waggon to announce that there was in the mootsi, waiting to see me, 
a man who had brought four oxen for the purchase of a musket. 
