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tuts filled with them. Even my tents and 
waggons were fo crowded with them, that I 
was obliged to fleep every night, while I re- 
mained there, in the open air. 
Though this country, the excellence of 
which was fo much vaunted to me^ was bar- 
ren, it produced the moft handfome and vigo- 
rous breeds of domeftic animals that I have 
any where feen in Africa. I purchafed fev^ral 
goats, each of which gave me daily as much 
milk as the beft of my cows ; and they coft 
me only a few knives, and fteels for ftriking 
fire. 
The oxen equally exceed In ftrength thofe 
in the eaftern colonies : but, from the modes 
of bringing them up, they are divided into 
three clafTes, beads of burden or draught, fad- 
dle-oxen, and war-oxen. Of the former two 
I fhall fay nothing, as they are known among 
the other favage tribes, and even in the colony, 
aiS I have already faid, where they are broken 
in after the fame manner ; obferving.only, that 
the Nimiqua faddle-oxen are much fuperior to 
the horfe in fupporting fatigue, and excelled by 
him in fcarcely any thing but fwiftnefs. The 
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