iSo TRAVELS IN 
joying a double allowance of brandy, 1 re- 
galed myfelf very cheerfully with my tea. 
Having mentioned to them the route 
which I intended to purfue next day, I found 
that they were already informed of it, and 
that they did not make fo many remonftrances 
and objed'ions as I expeded. 1 perceived 
that my journey was approaching to a clofe; 
and that every body, exhaufted by fatigue, 
thought any road good that appeared to 
bring us nearer to the Cape; but the paffage 
through the mountains of Snew-Bergen^ the 
\ifual haunt of the Bofhmen, made more 
than one of my brave attendants tremble, 
I fixed my departure for the eighth, in order 
that I might have time to repair my car- 
riages, to make new wooden work to fup- 
port the top of that in which I rode, to cover 
the canvafs of it with new mats, to replace 
our old traces from the hides of the buffa- 
loes killed during my abfence, and to caft 
balls and fmall (hot. All this required con- 
fiderable time ; and no lefs was necefl'ary to 
arrange the colledion which I had formed 
in CafFraria, and to confign to my journal 
the refult of my refearcbes refpeding that 
country 
