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for building, on various parts of the ground, the grass 
is good, and timber for building abounds in every 
direction. 
We arrived about four P.M. at our waggons at 
Sand-flat. They had had an uncommon fall of snow 
during our absence. Though we had travelled over a 
part of the country where elephants and other wild 
beasts abound, and where CafFres often lurk, we 
neither saw nor heard any of them* 
When all our waggons were packed and nearly 
ready to depart, it was judged better to postpone our 
journey until the morning, rather than begin it only 
an hour before sun-set, as the road was somewhat in- 
tricate. W^e visited Lieutenant Flechwood, the officer 
at the military post, whom we found sitting in his hut, 
attentively perusing the Newspapers I had left with 
him. He is the only officer at the post, which renders 
his situation extremely solitary, having none to asso- 
ciate with except the common soldiers, and a boor 
and family who know nothing. He is a native of 
Hesse, in Germany, where having aided in an insur- 
rection against the French, in which most of the insur- 
gents were slain, he escaped, with two others, to 
England, and obtained from the Duke of York, a 
commission in the 60th regiment. His library con- 
sisted only of a Dictionary and Almanack, which 
rendered his situation the more irksome ; he made, 
however, no complaints. 
