AFRICA. 191 
duty, for which I teftified to them my fatif- 
faftion. 
I committed to the care of Mr. Mulder all 
the animals I had preferved fmce I difpatched 
my laft cargo, as well as the living touracos 
I had caught in fnares ; which he promifed 
to tranfmit to Mr. Boers at the Cape. He had 
alfo the complaifance to give me one of his 
nets, and to fend me a pair of wheels which 
I afked from him. As my cart was very in- 
convenient, and always in danger of being 
overturned, I refolved to mount it in the 
fame manner as the reft of my carriages. — 
This being a w^ork of great neceffity, we fet 
about it immediately ; and every one took a 
fhare in the labour. The timber requifite for 
this operation was foon cut out ; and in lefs 
than a fortnight our cart, transformed into 
a waggon, rolled upon four wheels. It did not 
indeed in its conftrudion difplay the hand of a 
mafter ; but it anfwered my purpofe as well ; 
and I muft obferve that the whole fortnight 
was not employed in altering it. When I 
perceived that it went well, and that my cart- 
wrights would acquire honour by it, I fent 
a de- 
\ 
