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my ufual occupations, exerclfe and hunting. In 
my firft excurfion I found that we were flanked 
by a fecond river, called ^eur-Boom^ which 
falls from the weftern mountains, and is 
joined by the Witte-Dreft at the diftance of 
a league from the fea. Its mouth is near a bay, 
called by navigators the Bay of Agoa. In a 
journey which governor Blettenberg of the 
Cape made towards this place, he ordered his 
name, the year and the day of his arrival, to 
be engraven on a ftone column. I examined 
this wretched monument, which wanted no- 
thing but an infcription in verfe to render it 
ftill more contemptible. This name now pre^ 
vails in all the colonies ; and the Bay of Agoa 
is known under that of Blettenberg s Bay, Thus 
a paltry poft, erecSled by the vanity of an in- 
dividual, in a moment gives , birth to errors 
which difconcert conventions before received; 
and at the fame time overturns opinions gene- 
rally adopted by the people. In our neigh- 
bourhood there happened to be a flock of from 
twenty-five to thirty bubales in a place in- 
clofed by the fea and our two rivers ; and 
as our camp was fo fituated, that it filled 
the whole fpace which remained for them to 
efcape by, thefe animals were entirely at our 
mercv. 
