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there is a fine view of Plettenberg Bay, the western point of which 
is marked by a promontory and small island, the resort of a vast 
number of seals; and the eastern, by a high, conical hill, called the 
Grenadier's cap. Several lower peaks appear to rise at its foot. 
We noticed here a gigantic species of a plant, from its singular 
form, very properly called the chandelier. The specimen 1 ob- 
tained, had twenty shoots, proceeding, in a direction nearly hori- 
zontal, from its centre, each a foot long, with a beautiful scarlet 
flower at its point. Its root is a bulb. A smaller species is com- 
mon all over the waste. 
Having alighted, we walked to the house, along a gulley filled 
with fragments of a soft iron-stone, porous, and of various colours, 
brought off the hills by torren ts. Some of it was flaky, full of larger 
or smaller cavities, filled with fine yellow ochre. Sand-stone and 
quartz lie, as usual, in abundance upon the surface of the ground. 
Mr. P. and his old mothei' received us with civihty, and set be- 
fore us what their house afforded, tea-water, bread and butter, and 
preserved quinces of excellent flavour. Ttie hills opposite the farm, 
are intersected by woody kloofs, and rendered picturesque by ledges 
of grey rock, with intermediate bushes. We were informed, that 
they swarm with apes and baboons, as likewise with tygers, wolves, 
and other wild animals; and though the latter seldom approach the 
dwelUngs, yet the cries of the poor antelopes and other game, seized 
and worried by them among the rocks and woods, are frequently 
heard below. Mr. P. walked with us into the garden, which is large 
and plentifully stocked with all kinds of fruits, apples, pears, peach- 
es, quinces, oranges, and lemons, which he has some trouble to guard 
against the monkey tribes, infesting the neighbouring woods. 
When we first met, Mr. P. seemed shy and cautious, made the 
worst of every thing relating to Jackal's Kraal, that we might con- 
sider it as unfit for a missionary station ; but by degrees, he softened, 
and Avas ready to give every encouragement, hoping, that if a set- 
tlement was made, Hottentots would come into the country, and 
hands be obtained to assist in the farms. At present, the few Hot:- 
