Feb.] cape TOWN TO BEAUFORT. 
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boors, who died while on a journey. Each of the 
graves was covered with loose stones, at the head 
of the nearest was a brown flat stone fixed in the 
ground, of two feet in length, on which was the 
following inscription : 
I • A • V • NK or John Van Newkerk. 
D • 1 1 • D • C • B or Died the 1 1th December. 
A • 1802 or Year 1802. 
From the top of a small hill we had a view of 
the Elephant Mountains, about twenty miles dis- 
tant ; in every direction all was desert, and in a 
scorched state. Thermometer in the waggon, 
during the day, was not under 94. 
Boors, from the Sea-cow River, who were halt- 
ing near us on the 6th, when invited to attend 
worship in our tent, replied they knew all the 
forms in the Church, but they knew nothing 
about worshipping in that kind of way. Not one 
of them attended. The only stranger who joined 
us was a field-cornet's wife, who with her husband 
had come from their farm, about five miles dis- 
tant, to purchase some articles from a hawker. 
She told us their place of residence was on the 
Buffalo River ; that last year they had sown half 
a mudde* of corn, and their return was twenty- 
two mudde, (or forty-four fold.) She stated that 
* A mudde measures about four bushels. 
