AFRICA. 1279 
agitated by pride and vanity, lament that I 
can no longer diftinguifli my own charafter. 
When I fet out from the Cape, I did not 
negled to carry an almanack with me ; but 
in order to have fome certain method of 
reckoning, and to keep my journal correft, 
I made all the months to confift of thirty 
days. As I never paffed one without giving 
an account of it, I confidered it as a matter 
of indifference whether or not I diftinguiflied 
the weeks, and marked the days by their 
proper names, but I determined to dlftribute 
among my Hottentots their allowance of to- 
bacco every Saturday. If it happened that, 
not choofing to give myfelf the trouble of 
confulting my book, I alked them what the 
day was, I could eafily guefs what anfwer 
they would give me ; according to their cal- 
culation it was always Saturday ; fo that, 
when I looked at my regifter after travelling 
fifteen months, I found feven or eight of theft 
Saturdays which belonged to no week. 
I found myfelf therefore, as ufual, furround* 
ed by my nuiiierous family 5 and whilft all of 
them, and even the Gonaqua women, were 
fmpklng their pipes round a large fire, and en- 
T 4 joying 
