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imperfeaiy comminuted grafs, incapable of 
aiFording due nourilhment. 
My people, well fatisfied with the idle and 
quiet life they led in the horde, entreated me 
to remain a few days longer, to give my fick 
oxen time to be perfectly recovered. But my 
patience was exhaulled : I preferred rather to 
leave thefe oxen behind me : and though I 
had every reafon to exped a continuance of 
drynefs and misfortunes, as my journey was 
in a contrary diredlion to that of the feafons ; 
though prudence direded me to return to th^ 
Cape ; and though there w^as fcarcely any thing 
but falfe fluame which induced rae to perfift 
m my fcheme, I refolved to refume.my path, 
and purfue my excurfion to the Nimiquas. 
At the fame time my health v/as far from 
being in a perfed: ftate, and I ftill felt fome 
inconveniency from an accident which had 
confined me a week to my tent. 
iirnong all the remarkable plants of this 
canton, that which moft fixed my attention, 
was a fpecies of thorny geranium with large 
flowers, which the Nimiquas call nourap. This 
geranium hits a peculiar property ; all its in- 
ternal 
