AFRICA. 
towards the clofe of the day, and I caufed my 
cattle to be unyoked hi Groene-Valcy (greei^ 
lake), about two hundred yards from a plan- 
tation. 
I obferve, in ail the maps of Africa, and all 
the accounts of the Cape of Good Hope, that 
the Dutch word valey is tranflated valley. 
The word valey^ however, fignifies a lake or 
marfli, and not a valley, which in Dutch is. 
This was a manor plantation that belonged 
to the governor. His baas^ or overfeer, faw me 
arrive, and, while my oxen were unyoking, he 
ftood quietly at his door ; but no fooner vv^ere 
they let loofe, than he gave orders to the Hot- 
tentots and negroes under his command, to feize 
them and convey them to the farm. At that 
moment I had juft caufed a fire to be lighted, 
Surprifed at the condud; of the flaves, I went up 
to the overfeer, and defired him to explain it. 
He replied, that there were particular orders 
from government, which forbade any planter 
to unyoke and turn cattle adrift within his 
mafter's domains, and that, in confequence of 
doing fo,all my oxen were confifcated. Excel- 
lent logic for a knave devoid of ^11 principle ! 
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