APRIL.] JOURNEY TO GRAAF REYNET. 
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beads round his neck, hanging over his breast like a 
chain. His wife and daughter had a Httle more cloth- 
ing. The former was in a decline, and her weakness 
had prevented their proceeding with some of their 
friends who were a little before them. We gave them 
some wine for the sick woman, with a little bread, 
which they received gratefully. When the girl had 
drank the half of her share of the wine, her father 
seized it and drank it himself, saying, with a smile, 
It is good. He had six assagays, or spears, with him, 
which are the principal weapons used in war and in 
self-defence. They were all painted nearly of the 
same colour as mahogany. Their countenances were 
agreeable; their hair was short black wool, nearly 
resembling that of the Hottentots. The girl, about 
fourteen years of age, wore two short brass chains, 
hanging from her hair over her temples. 
The hills on our right were beautiful, of various 
shapes, and covered with lively green. They seemed 
to consist of different stories, by means of regular 
strata, that projected beyond the grass, and added 
greatly to their picturesque appearance. At eleven 
A.M. we halted at a pleasant spot under a hill, where 
we took our breakfast, but found our bread and flour 
were exhausted ; we obtained, however, a piece of a 
loaf from a boor who was passing. Our Hottentot, 
Cupido, was born in this part of the country ; he 
halted the preceding day at a boor's, where he preached 
in the evening and morning, who on his leaving, gave 
