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CHAPTER VII. 
Remarkable story of a rhinoceros, related by the co- 
lonist. — The farmers generally discontented with 
the Dutch government at the Cape. — Neighbouring 
colonists arrive at Du Pliesies. — Their conduct 
described. — Waggon returns with twenty-three of 
the crew. — Thirteen strayed. — Reward and dismiss 
the CafFree guides. — Recommendatory letter given 
by the farmer to the captain in the Dutch language. 
— ^Their departure from Du Pliesies. — Arrive at an- 
other Christian settlement. — ^Their reception and de- 
parture. — Proceed on the journey. — Boshismen de- 
scribed.— The party travelling through a valley, in 
great danger from the Boshismen. — They get through 
without injury, and enter a champaign country. 
When our meal was over, the worthy 
colonist began to interrogate us respecting 
our journey through CafFraria. He could 
not possibly conceive, he said, how the 
Tambochis could be induced to suffer our 
departure. They were such a horrid race, 
that nothing was so gratifying to their 
nature as the shedding of human blood. 
The Boshismen, he also observed, were so 
numerous, and so perpetually on the look 
