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water ; and behind it a little garden gone to 
wafte, but which, amid the weeds that began 
to overrun it, ftill contained lettuces, peale, 
pumpions, and other culmary vegetables. 
The pafture around appeared excellent ; and 
the Orange flowed at a fmall diftance from it. 
In fliort, the folitary who had ereded his her- 
mitage there had chofen a fpot equ>illy fertile 
and pleafant : but I was lurprifed to fee it un- 
inhabited and abandoned; and I afked Klaas 
Barter, who, knowing the country, might be 
acquainted with the caufe, if he could account 
for the circumftance. 
He informed me that the houfe had been 
built by my honeft friend Schoenmaker; who, 
in his wandering life, had made, in this man- 
ner, different fettlements on the banks of the 
Orange ; and that he had quitted this to r©-* 
move from the neighbourhood of Bernfry and 
Moodel, who he was aware owed him no good-? 
will. 
I (hall fpeak farther on of an unfortunate 
family that I met in the defert on my return 
to the Cape, and to whom I recommended to 
®ccupy this deferted retreat. If they followed 
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