iQZ TRAVELS IN 
The woods furnlQi fmall game in abun- 
dance : buffaloes, and fometimes elephants, are 
alfo found in them. Two or three houfes, the 
inhabitants of which have no other employ- 
ment but to carry on a dull and laborious 
trade in wood and butter with the Cape, are 
feen here; but fcattered at a very great dif- 
tance from each other. 
In this beautiful country I remained till the 
13th. We then croffed, by very difagreeable 
roads, a foreft named Poor/; and, after tra- 
velling feven hours more, reached the river 
pri/fe DreJ}, In feveral places I obferved a 
few more habitations, no lefs miferable and 
wretched than the former; for the diftance, the 
dangers of the journey, and other obftacles 
Invincible to thefe poor people, do not permit 
them, except very rarely, to drive a few oxen 
to the Cape : and, even when they arrive there, 
they are in a bad condition ; and on that ac- 
count the owners of them make a bad market, 
and are as badly paid. At the time I paffed 
here, many of thefe people had not been at 
the Cape for a number of years. 
I ftill continued to advance, but whether it 
y/as that fatigue, and the repeated misfortunes 
I fucceffively experienced, had deranged my 
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