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feen the driver, when he has found expedition needful, 
make them keep whatever pace he thought proper; either 
trot or gallop (a gait performed or kept up with diffi- 
culty by European oxen), and that with as much eafe as 
if he was driving horfes. This immenfe whip, the only 
thing with which they guide the team, the drivers ufe fo 
dexteroufly, that they make them turn a corner with the 
utmoft nicety ; hitting even the leading pair, in whatever 
part they pleafe. The blows thus given mufl: inflid: 
intolerable pain, or thefe flow animals could never be 
brought to go with the velocity they do at the Cape. 
Thefe footy charioteers likewife manage horfes with the 
fame dexterity. To fee one of them driving three, four, 
five, and fometimes fix pair, in hand, with one of thefe 
long whips, as I have often done with great furprife, 
would make the moft complete mafier of the whip in 
England cut a defpicable figure. Carriages are not very 
numerous at the Cape, as the inhabitants in general travel 
in covered waggons, which better fuit the roughnefs of the 
country. The governor and fome few of the principal 
people keep coaches, which are a good deal in the Englifh 
ftile, and always drawn by fix horfes. The only chariot 
I faw 
