September. ] VISIT TO SOME BOORS. 
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running water, and the soil of which was a fine 
black earth ; this tract of land could probably be 
all cultivated, and might prove fruitful without 
irrigation, as it possesses plenty of moisture. At 
six p. M. we halted near the residence of two 
boors from the colony, who had settled them- 
selves in that spot. They immediately came to 
the waggons, and afterwards kindly sent us some 
milk. The situation which is called Dash Port, 
is retired and romantic, the valley having on all 
sides a wall of hills. The soil seems good for 
corn, but fuel is scarce. Therm, at noon 64. 
3rd. The morning was foggy, accompanied 
with a heavy dew. The boors with their families 
attended worship in the tent at ten a.m., it being 
the Lord 's day ; afterwards I visited them in their 
house, which was only a kind of temporary 
erection. They had twelve Bushwomen servants, 
which made a little stir, the men were with the 
cattle. The wind in this situation generally 
blows in the day from the N. but at sunset 
changes to the S.S.E. and E. The boors re- 
marked to Kok that the Bushmen around them 
did not steal like those near the Griquas— that 
they sometimes came and asked for flesh or bread, 
and when they got it went quietly away. 
4th. At seven in the morning we left Dash 
Port by an opening between the hills to the south. 
