TRAVELS IN 
CHAP. 11. 
Military Expedition to the KafTer Frontier. 
ccafwn of this Expedition. — Affairs of Graaf Reyut.'^Gordoii s Ba'^.— Hottentot 
Holland's Kloof— Obflinacy of the Colonifs. — Cruelty to Animals, bad Effects of. — 
Palmiet and Bctt Rivers. — "temperature of the Air. — The Shoemaker's Hovel. — 
Rapid Vegetation after Rain — Plants firjl appearing. — Sweet Milk's V alley — wild 
Animals there. — EfablifJjment of Hernhuters or ^Moravians'—good EffeBs of. — 
Hottentots difcouraged by the Colonifls—Sir James Craig s Tefimony of— other 
Mijfionaries. — Infance of T^eal in Mr. Kicherer — Refection thereiipon.<-^Irflance 
of favage Cruelty in the Bnors — a Boor tahen into Cuflody. — Two of our Dragoons 
lojl in a River. — Scarci/y of Water attempted to be explaitied from the Nature and 
Antiquity of the Mountains — FaHs adduced in Proof of the Theory. — Cape Ifihmus 
never covered with the Sea — Renfons for fuel] Conjc£lure.-.—L' Aguillas Bank once 
Part of the Continent. — Antiquity of Africa.— Mufcle Bay — Chart and Defcrip- 
tion cf. — Cro/} Attaqiias Kloof into Lange Kloof. — Wine—~Raifins — Brandy- 
all of bad ^lality. — Experiment for making good Wine. — Appearance of Lange 
Kloof — crofs the Mountains to Plettenberg's Bny—Reafon why Forefl Trees are more 
abundant there than elfewhere. — Air. Calander's Account of the Knyfna — and 
furrounding Country. — Condition of a Cape Boor, — Anchor found on Table Moun- 
tain. — Plants near Plettenberg s Bay — and Animals, — h fiance of Ingenuity in a 
deaf and dumb Man, — Appearance of the Country between Caintcos River and 
Algoa Bay. — Engagement between La Preneufe and the RattJtfnake. — Change of 
Circumflances favourable to the Boors-— rebellious Boors fent to the Cape— -tried by 
the Court of j/ufire there — Confitution of this Court — bad Chara&er of undeferved. 
Bcors plundered by the Hottentots — Juf if cation of thefe People — their cruel Treat- 
ment by the Boors— F.xamples of in a Hottentot Woman and Child cut with Shambocs 
— in a Boy with Iron Rings clenched on his Legs — Puuijhment of the Boor. — Ano- 
ther Infance f the faiiguinary Character of the Boors — its Caufe explained. — People 
