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conceive nearly to amount to a proof that the animals added to t>, 
it at different times, as they found neceffary, from the increafe ' — * — ^ 
of the family, or rather I fhould fay, the nation or community. 
Upon leaving Rie Beck's Caftiel, I directed my courfe 
through Swart Land, towards the Groena Kloaf, where I arri- 
ved the following day, and found the farmers engaged in 
gathering in their harvefl:. 
In the evening of the twenty-firft of December, I arrived 
at the Cape, after a journey of fix months and five days- 
