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likely to induce the plundering Africaner to attack 
them. Thermometer at noon, 86: at 4 P.M. 91, 
The day generally encreases in warmth till four o'clock, 
after which it gradually becomes cooler. 
The flies are very numerous and very troublesome 
all the year. They have a strange method of obtain- 
ing temporary relief from them. They rub milk over 
their sheep, and placing them before the door, drive 
out the flies, which instantly light upon the sheep 
>vhose backs are wet with milk, when they are driven to 
9. distance. 
21st. The people again assembled, when they agreed 
to establish among themselves the same laws which have 
been adopted in Griqualand ; they chose persons who 
were to act as judges in conjunction with the captains, 
and fijied upon the limits of the land which they occu- 
py, where the laws are to be enforced. Encouraged 
the people to begin some trade with the Corannas, 
Great Namacquaas, Damaras, &c. 
Thermometer at noon, 82. Many clouds were 
seen this day at the bottom of the horizon towards the 
S.W. which occurred several times before, but they 
never approached nearer. It was near the close of 
the rainy season at about seventy miles distance in 
that direction, yet there was constant sun-shine at 
Pella, without a minute of interruption, and no rain 
was expected before December or January. 
