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and other useful employments. In the neighbourhood of this 
place, especially on some rocky hills to the south, many wikl 
horses are yet seen. I obtained the skin of one, in barter for some 
gunpowder. A Koodoo-skin was likewise purchased for five rix- 
dollars. They are used for lashes, and sold at a much higher 
price near the Cape. 
Brother Stein had here an opportunity of serving some of the fa- 
mily with medical advice, bled ablack female slave, and attempted 
to extract a toeth, which had long tormented the mistress. But 
no sooner had he brought his instrument to bear upon it, than she 
pushed him away, leaving the tooth half-drawn ; nor v/ould she 
suffer him to finish his work, the bleeding of the lacerated gum 
having brought her some relief. No persuasion from her wiser 
husband could prevail, to let him make a second attempt. 
Though the Vorspann system was sometimes attended with un- 
foreseen delays, we generally contrived to make good use of our 
time, nor did the people at this place seem to wish to get rid of 
us. In the evening, the lightning was vivid all round the horizon. 
Our dormitory was a lumber-room, with a mud-floor, where we 
enjoyed a quiet night. 
2d. After breakfast, we were glad to see two spanns of oxen ar- 
rive for our use. The country through which we passed, was one 
continued waste, thickly covered with plants and bushes. Some 
species of the thorn-bush and speckboom were new to me. In 
two hours, we arrived at the Veldcornet Wolfran's farm, but made 
no stay. He came out to us, and gave us a letter to the farmer 
at Saffran's Revier to furnish us with fresh cattle, as his were too 
young and weak to take us through Attaqua's Kloof. Butwhen we 
arrived at that place, the farmer pretended, that he had no oxen 
at home, though the dragoons informed us, that he had enough 
for five spanns, but had driven them across the river, as soon as he 
saw our waggons coming down the hill. He seemed to be com- 
pletely under the controulof hiswife, a woman of a most surly tem- 
per, who, when her more hospitable daughter set a plate of apples 
