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cut out two chambers perfectly fquare ; in one 
of which I placed my table and my chair : this 
was my ftudy. The fecond I ornamented 
with my kitchen utenfils : but this did not 
prevent me from ufing it at the fame time as 
a dining room. Thefe two apartments, natu- 
rally covered with bi*anches and leaves im- 
penetrably thick, afforded me a delightful and 
cool retreat, when haraffed and covered with 
fweat and duft, after my hunting excurfion in 
the morning, I retired from the heat of the 
day, and the fcorching rays of the fun. When 
fatigue had fharpened my appetite, what de- 
lightful repafts ! v/hen fleep ftole upon me, 
what voluptuous and gentle repofe ! — Ye fump- 
tuous grottoes of our financiers ! ye Englifh ^ 
gardens twenty times changed with the wealth 
of the citizen ! why do your ftreanis, your caf- 
cades, your pretty ferpentine walks, your 
broken bridges, your ruins, your marbles, and 
all your fine inventions, difguft the tafte and 
fatigue the eye, when we know the verdant 
and natural bower of the Pampoen-Kraal ? 
Whatever it coft me to abandon this amia- 
ble folitude, I was however obliged to# think 
of departing. One day having traverfed the 
whole 
