A F R t C A. i6i 
pahibiii Senfible flie was far from being ia 
earneft, I ftrenuoufly refifted all flie could urge 
on this head, and with great gravity refufed 
the offers of one who certainly intended the 
boundaries of her father's farm to be the limits 
of her excurfion. However, it is not without 
fome vexation and regret that I now feel this 
happinefs was wanting to render the enjoy- 
ments of my peregrination complete ; and that 
tiothing was more eafy than to have departed, 
fhared the toils of the journey, returned, and, 
in a word, lived with me* 
Though it was now the middle of winter 
according to the ideas of the inhabitants, that 
is to fay, the rainy feafon, we neverthelefs en- 
joyed for otir hunting excurfioris very favour- 
able weather, the rain not being fo frequent at 
this period in the mountains as at the Cape. 
This mufi: be afcribed to the colledion of clouds 
driven from the north towards the Table mouti- 
tain, and which never fail to break over the 
town and its environs. We refided under a 
* niild climate, and every day was rriore delight- 
ful than the preceding one. Thole terrible 
fbuth-eaft winds, v^hich often defolate the 
whole country around^ had fled from our at* 
Vol, I. M mofphere. 
