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prefled me, by learning that Mr. Boers was 
perfedlly recovered, and that he had returned 
to the town. In this fpot I had an opportu- 
iiity of meeting with birds of various kinds, 
and, among others, fome coots exa£tly like 
thofc of Europe ; but the marfhes near the 
lake furnifhed me with fuch a number of 
fnlpes that they became our ordinary food. 
As there were a great many hogs upon this 
plantation, I purchafed one of them ; but I 
was obliged to go and choofe It myfelf, and 
take it from the reeds ; becaufe, as I have al- 
ready obferved, when fpeaking of the manner 
in which they are bred, thefe had become 
quite wild. I bought alfo fome flour, in or- 
der that I might regale my people with the firft 
bread they had eat fmce my departure : Klaas' 
wife prepared it, and jfhe indeed fucceeded 
wonderfully well. Having quitted Werkeerde- 
Valey, we entered o the 21ft another country, 
called the Boke-Veld, or plain of the fpring- 
bocks*, which undoubtedly abounded there 
formerly ; but at this time none of them were 
any where to be feen. On the hills, every 
where around us, we obferved feveral planta- 
tions, from which we in vain endeavoured to 
* A kind of antelopes, 
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