4' S TRAVELS IN 
indeed any of that apparatus and thofe attend- 
ants which had hitherto been neceffary. My 
oxen, become ufelefs to me, were the firft things 
I fought to difpofe of. Being extremely lean, 
and little calculated for the yoke in their pre- 
fent condition, I offered them to the company's 
butcher, who paid me at the rate of feven rix- 
dollars per head, or about thirty livres French 
money. 
Two of my cows I gave to Klaas's wife, who 
had accompanied me on my journey, and had 
performed for me the office of a laundrefs, 
and fometimes of a cook ; and two others to 
Swanepoel. Finally, I offered my goats to 
the daughters of Slaber : but they would only 
accept them conditionally, as depofits to be 
returned if, in confequence of taking a new 
journey, I fliould hereafter have occafion for 
them. 
In this herd of goats were a he and flie pur- 
chafed by me in the Nimiqua country for my 
friend Liewenberg, of the canton of the Four- 
and- Twenty Rivers, and at his requeft. I had 
the pleafure of delivering them to him myfelf. 
I had not forgotten the bottles of lemon- juice, 
which this worthy planter had given me in 
my 
