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by certain malicious and designing persons at tiie Cape, had, 
even after the surrender of the Colony to the English, indig- 
nantly used, and then expelled, both the landrost and the 
clergyman who had been sent thither by Sir James Craig. It 
became therefore necessary, in order to convince them of the 
firmness of the British government, to compel them to re- 
ceive, and to treat with due respect, the same two functiona- 
ries they had thought proper to turn out of the district. The 
landrost, who had hitherto shewn no great desire to return 
among a people who had more than once menaced his life, 
made few objections to accompany me ; but the clergyman, 
already too much terrified or disgusted with the treatment he 
had met with, could not on any consideration be prevailed on 
to join our party. 
Though the rains usually commence about the beginning 
of May, in the present year the whole month of June was a 
series of fine pleasant weather ; unfavourable, however, to the 
labours of the husbandman, and not less so to the traveller, 
who might have before him a long journey over the uninha- 
bited deserts of Africa, and who must necessarily make daily 
use of the same cattle, either in the team, or to travel along 
with him as relays. The established mode of performing long 
journies, in this Colony, is in covered waggons drawn by bul- 
locks. The carriages made for this purpose are very expen- 
sive ; but they are well constructed to bear hard service, to 
run with tolerable ease, and are sufficiently commodious and 
spacious to contain all the necessaries that may be wanted on 
a long journey, as well as a cot, or matress, for sleeping upon. 
Such a carriage is commonly drawn by a team, or span as it 
