June.] STATE OF THE GARDEN. 
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apparent pleasure, the screams of the Bushmen, 
when put to death by the Bootshuannas. Alas ! 
how truly do the Scriptures represent the dark 
places of the earth as being the habitations of 
cruelty. 
Though this was the middle of winter at Lat- 
takoo, I observed in Mr. Hamilton's garden the fol- 
lowing things in blossom, viz. The tobacco plant, 
the cotton and the castor-oil trees ; also peas, car- 
rots, geraniums, sun-flowers, convolvulus, mari- 
golds, hollyhocks, and stocks. The peach-trees 
had lost their leaves, and those of the fig-tree 
were fading. When the natives first saw a bed of 
flowers in Mr. H.'s garden, they conceived they 
were either for medicine or food, and would 
not believe that they were only for pleasure. 
Nothing in creation attracts their attention un- 
less it can be converted into food or used as an 
ornament. 
They have no dew at Lattakoo, in summer, ex- 
cept for a day or two after a considerable quan- 
tity of rain ; but it generally falls in the winter. 
During summer the wind daily begins to blow 
from the north, increasing until two p. m., bring- 
ing heat and clouds of sand along withit. This 
wind generally dies away about five in the even- 
ing, when it veers round to the south, blowing 
cold during the night. In the Griqua country. 
