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ever seen ? Ans.l do not think one thing more won- 
derful than another — all the beasts are fine. Q. If he 
could get any thing he wished, what would he desire 
to have? Am, I would have plenty of beads, knives, 
tinder-boxes, cattle, and sheep. Q. What other 
countries had he heard of? Ans. I have heard of the 
CafFres, Dutch, and English, but I have not seen 
any English. Q. What kind of food he would like 
best to have every day ? Ans. Bread and sheep s 
flesh. 
25th. There was ice on the water in the morning 
about the thickness of a dollar. Thermometer, at sun- 
rise, 40 : at noon, 70. About two, P.M. we came to 
the edge of an extensive plain, perhaps an hundred 
miles in circumference, having a considerable lake at 
the west end of it. This lake, which perhaps no 
European ever saw before, we named Burder's Lake, 
after the Secretary to the Missionary Society. There 
is perhaps no extent of country known in the world, 
favoured with so few lakes as those parts of Africa. 
Although I had now travelled five months in South 
Africa, this was the first I had seen which deserved 
the name of a lake; two others, in Albany, are only 
large pools. It being too early in the day to halt, we 
passed to the right of it. We found the whole of 
Burder's Plain, especially in the vicinity of the lake, 
abounding with game, and particularly with various 
kinds of bucks. We shot nine bucks, one quacha, and 
one ostrich. The quacha was only wounded, and 
ran lame. Our Bushman, who was extremely fond of 
