SECOND JOURNEY, 
Early on die morning of the twenty-feventh, we fallied 
forth towards the north, and afcended a fteep hill, where I 
coUecled many beautiful plants. At night we came to a 
Hottentot village, which coniifted of nineteen huts, and 
about one hundred and fifty inhabitants. The eniign of au- 
thority, which is worn by their chief or captain, is a cane with 
a brafs top, which is given to him by the Dutch company. 
The Hottentots amufed us, part of the night, with their 
dancing ; while, in return, we treated them with tobacco and 
Dacka. Their mufic is produced from flutes made of the bark 
of trees of different fizes. The men form themfelves into a 
circle, with their flutes, and the women dance round them, 
making a noife with their hands. In this manner they con- 
tinue to dance in parties during the whole night, and are 
relieved about every two hours. 
From this place, on the twenty-eighth, we dire£ted our 
courfe wefterly, after afcending a fleep mountain, where our 
waggon was much damaged. Here we had a view of the 
Atlantic ocean, about thirty miles to the weflward. At noon 
we came to a fountain, where were feveral Hottentot huts : 
this is called the Eye Fountain, by the natives, from one of 
them having had his eye flruck out here in a quarrel with the 
others. The foil is clay, intermixed with large round ftones. 
In this part of the country I collected a variety of plants. In 
the evening we came to a fmall flream of water, where we 
flept. 
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