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fo from the near refemblance of its cry to the barking of a 
dog. 
On reaching our quarters in Lange Kloof we were agreeably 
furprlzed to find that the fhoes of all our horfes had been re- 
moved, and new ones placed on fuch as wanted them. This 
had been a matter of ferious confideration from the firft day of 
our expedition ; for, as the horfes of the colony are never fhod, 
except thofe in the hands of the Englifh, we could hardly flatter 
ourfelves that we fhould meet with any perfon in the interior 
of the country, capable of undertaking fuch an operation. A 
young man, however, born deaf and dumb, without ever hav- 
ing feen a horfe-fhoe before, made feveral new ones, and re-r 
placed others with as much care and neatnefs, as one that had 
been brought up to the bufmefs of a farrier. This ingenious 
young man, the only one I can fafely fay that I ever met with 
in the courfe of my travels in this country, fupported, by his 
labour, a worthlefs drunken father, and a number of brothers 
and fitters. -'fnl- ' 
Nothing of moment occurred until we reached the borders of 
the Camtoos River, which divides the difl:ri<3; of Zwellendam 
from that of Graaf Reynet. Being pafTable only by waggons 
at one ford, we encamped there, as the moft eligible fituation 
for keeping open a communication between Brigadier General 
Vandeleur and the Cape. Scarcely, however, had we arrived 
when an exprefs from the General directed us to proceed to 
Algoa Bay. 
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