AFRICA. 51 
The party was fcarcely aflembled, when the 
two fons and two daughters of Van der Weft- 
huyfen, affifted by a few Hottentots, prepared 
to grind the quantity of corn which fo many 
ftrangers were likely to confume. The mill 
required four ftout labourers, and the group 
joined occafionally in the exercife, relieving 
each other in turn. The fire in the mean 
time crackled on the hearth, in expectation of 
a whole fheep, juft flayed, that hung againft 
the wall, and was to conftitute the fole difli in 
this elegant repaft. The men drew their pipes 
from their pockets, and began their fmoking. 
Pinar was of the party : no niggard of his 
brandy, when he was to partake of it himfelf, 
he had brought with him a plentiful fupply, 
and the company were by no means dilatory in 
applying it to their lips. 
As to myfelf, already more than fatlsfied 
with their entertainment, I felt my heart rife 
within me at the odious fight of this fheep 
hung againft the wall, and the blood of which 
ftill by degrees fell upon the floor. In a fliort 
timp the heat of the fire, the thicknefs of the 
fmoke produced by fo many pipes, the perfpi- 
ratlon of the perfonages at the mill, the oily 
furface 
