CASCADE ON SNEUWBERG. 
N° 25. 
The southern side of the range of mountains, called the Sneuwberg, or snowy 
mountains, being very abrupt, and in many places nearly perpendicular to the plains 
that stretch along the sea coast, abounds with grand cascades, or waterfalls, during 
the rainy months and the melting of the snow; but the water in the dry season en- 
tirely disappears. The Table Mountain at the Cape, sometimes after heavy rain, 
exhibits a number of similar waterfalls pouring over the edge of its high and per- 
pendicular front, but they are of short duration, and their grandeur considerably 
diminished by the total want of wood. 
BOSJESMANS FRYING LOCUSTS. 
THE KLIP- SPRINGER. 
N° 26. 
N° 27. 
There is not perhaps any race of people, however savage, that gives itself less 
trouble in constructing habitations, or that is less encumbered with clothing or do- 
mestic utensils, than that particular tribe of Hottentots known to the Dutch by the 
name of Bosjesmans. Their huts consist of a mat of grass bent into a semicircle, 
and kept in that position by a few upright sticks, and one of the ends closed by an- 
other mat. Their clothing seldom extends beyond the skin of some wild animal 
tied round the loins. A gourd, or an ostrich egg, serves them for carrying a little 
water, and a sack of the skin of some of the smaller antelopes for holding their dried 
locusts, wild honey, or bulbous roots. In the annexed print a party is employed in 
frying locusts in a hole dug in the ground, which is heated with ashes, but in general 
they dry them in the sun. Their chief employment is the pursuit of game, which 
they are sometimes enabled to procure by wounding with poisoned arrows, and those 
on the confines of the colony commit depredations on the flocks and herds of the 
boors. 
The Klip-springer, or Rock-leaper, is a species of Antelope which is never met 
with but on the summits of high naked mountains, and it seems to delight in perch- 
ing on the tops of pinnacles, and in bounding from rock to rock with amazing- 
agility. " Its cloven hoofs," says Mr. Barrow, " are each of them subdivided into 
" two segments, and jagged at the edges, which gives it the power of adhering to 
" the steep sides of the smooth rock without danger of slipping. The colour is cine- 
" reous grey, and its black horns are short, straight, erect, and annulated one third 
" of their length from the base. The hair is very singular, being so brittle that it 
" breaks instead of bending, adheres loosely to the skin, and is so very light that it 
" is used as the best article that can be procured for stuffing saddles." These ani- 
mals are entirely out of the reach of dogs, and are obtained only by shooting them 
when mounted on the pinnacles of the rocks. Their flesh is highly flavoured, but 
like that of all the game of southern Africa, it is entirely destitute of fat. 
