May.] concerning MAKKABBA. 
among them would almost suppose that they 
lived without eating. 
Conversing in the tent with Munameets, Pe- 
langye, Maketzee, &c. about Makkabba, the king 
of the Wanketzens, they mentioned, as a won- 
derful trait in his character, that he never slept 
in the day-time. When I told them that the 
people in my country did not sleep in the day- 
time either, they laughed, and said they had ob- 
served me several times a-day, at Kurreechane, go 
to my waggon, as they supposed to sleep. When 
I retired from the bustle to write in my journal, 
I was obliged to make every thing as close as 
possible, to prevent molestation from the spec- 
tators, who constantly beset the waggons ; and 
probably it was owing to this mistake, which 
generally prevailed, that I enjoyed so much 
quiet when I withdrew to the waggon. 
At seven we went forward, and soon travelled 
among the trees which we had found so com- 
pletely stript of their leaves by a hail-storm. 
Though it was winter, they were again sprouting, 
which considerably removed the gloomy appear- 
ance they made when we were going up the 
country. The young grass was also shooting up, 
which gave the country the appearance of spring. 
On viewing this scene, Cornelius, my Hottentot 
driver, told me that once, on the confines of 
