8^ TRAVELS IN 
The dry and burnt parts are fit only for 
goats, which are always of a fine breed. Their 
fize varies according to the different cantons; 
but, in general, they are every where excel- 
lent, and produce as much milk as the cows. 
They bring forth young twice a year, like 
flieep 5 the latter for the moft part bring two 
at a time; but the goats three, and very often 
four. 
The Hottentots are not acquainted with 
hogs, and even the European planters dif- 
dain to breed them*. I have however feen 
fome of them in particular cantons, where 
they are fufFered to multiply and to live un- 
confined. To catch them one muft purfuc 
them, and kill them with a fufee. 
Poultry are not efteemed among the Hot- 
tentots ; befides, they could not rear them, 
were they defirous to do it ; for, as they 
never fow, they have no kind of grain. 
The roots which they principally make 
ufe of, are confined to a very fmall number. 
They never boil them, as they think them 
better when eat raw; and indeed experience 
convinced me that they are not in the wrong. 
That which I preferred, known under the 
Hottentot name of kamero^ is fliaped like a 
/ radifh. 
