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mentioned, having fallen in with a Hottentot at fome diftance 
from any habitation, fet him up to the neck in a deep trench, and 
wedged him in fo faft with ftones and earth that he was inca- 
pable of moving. In this fituation he remained a whole night, 
and the greater part of the following day ; when, luckily, fome 
of his companions pafled the place and releafed him. The poor 
fellow ftated that he had been under the neceffity of keeping his 
eyes and mouth in perpetual motion the whole day, to prevent 
the crows from devouring him.^ 
The habitations that compofe the divifion of the Hantam, lie 
fcattered round the feet of that m.ountain. The face of the 
country is fimilar to that of the Sneuwberg, and the breed of 
cattle and of flieep are equally good ; the horfes in general 
much better, but they are fubje£t to the fame endemic difeafe 
that prevails in moft parts of GraafF Reynet. It is here, how- 
ever, very partial, for while it rages at the foot of the moun- 
tain, there is not the fmalleft danger on the flat fummit, on 
which account this part of the mountain is appropriated to the 
public ufe, each inhabitant having the privilege of fending 
thither eight horfes during the fickly feafon. 
As in the Sneuwberg, they are here alfo very much infefted 
with locufts. One troop of thefe infects, in their laft ftage of 
exiftence, paffed on the wing along the eaftern fide of the moun- 
tain when we were encamped there. For feveral hours they con- 
tinued to hover in the air as they paffed along, at fuch a height 
as not to be individually diftinguifhed ; but their immenfe num- 
bers formed a kind of fleecy cloud, that completely took off the 
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