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fnerit than that of recalling to my view the 
place where I killed my four elephants, and 
the time when that event happened. I re- 
membered that they readily eat the fruit and 
the leaves of this tree; and, as I had never 
tafted them, I embraced this opportunity of 
their being within my reach; but I was con- 
vinced that one muft be an elephant to be 
able to endure them. 
My Hottentots made me remark a tree 
which I had never before feen, and which 
they told me had been formerly very com- 
tnon in the colonies. It was employed in 
preference to any other for making carts and 
waggons ; but only by the company, who had 
exprefsly forbid it to be ufed except for their 
fervice. This exclufion was the caufe of its 
(Seftrudlion, and it is now only feen in places 
remote from the colonies. On the other 
hand, the indolence of the planters fufFered 
it to decay entirely, fo that at prefent it is 
confidered as a loft fpecies. This tree, at the 
Cape, is named ioeken houtt. 
CafFraria often produces, in the neighbour- 
hood of fmall rivers and in mar£hy places, a 
kind of trees which have a great refemblance 
to our willows. I have alfo often met with 
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