VOYAGE TO NEW SOUTH WALES. 
They were of a dark brbwn colour, had a flat nofe, thick 
lips, large full eyes, and were ornamented with ivory 
rings, and wore narrow flrips of the fkin of fome animal, 
devoid of its hair, around their neck, legs, and arms. 
The only female of that nation I could get a fight of^ was 
during a little excurlion in the environs of Cape Town : 
walking one evening with a Dutch gentleman, to fee a 
garden about a mile from the town, I accidentally met 
one of thefe ladies, who was equally as ofFenfive as the male 
I had met. 
The heavy draft work about the Cape is moflly performed 
by oxen ; which are here brought to an uncommon degree 
of ufefulnefs and docility. It is not uncommon to fee 
fourteen, fixteen, and fometimes eighteen, in one of their 
teams; when the mads avp heavy, they fometimes, though 
rarely, yoke twenty ; all which the Hottentots, Malayes, 
and Cape flaves, have in the moft perfedl fubje(^ion and 
obedience. One of thefe fellows places himfelf on the 
fore part of the waggon, or, when loaded, on the top of 
the load, and with a tremendous long whip, which, from 
its fize, he is obliged to hold in both his hands, manages 
thefe creatures with inexpreffible addrefs. I have often 
O feen 
