May.] visit TO SINOSEE'S SON. Qgg 
minds with freedom. In fact they exhibited a 
singular compound of barbarism and civilization. 
The utmost latitude of speech seems to be allowed 
on such occasions. The women, who stood about 
twenty yards, distant from the assembly some- 
times cheered, by pronouncing the letter r in a 
loud musical tone. An elderly woman very fre- 
quently applauded in that way, while the 
Regent was speaking ; I concluded she was his 
mother or sister. 
11th. At break of day, the waggons were sur- 
rounded by people who were much more open and 
free ; few of the children, however, had yet over- 
come their antipathy to our appearance, for, if 
they met me suddenly in a lane, they fled to the 
nearest hiding-place. 
' We went again to Sinosee's district, on a visit 
to his son. A crowd of people surrounded us the 
whole time we were there. He treated us, as his 
father had done, with their liquor resembling beer, 
but so thick and new that I could do little more 
than taste it. On walking round his house I was 
amused to find two of our Hottentots busy in pull-' 
ing off some copper rings from the arm of the 
captain, which they had bargained for. He had 
a respectable appearance, though painted red 
from head to foot. There must have been at 
least forty rings on the arm at which the Hot- 
