1811. 
PRICE OF OXEN. 
135 
dollars for a span (a team), he obligingly undertook the commission 
of selecting and purchasing two teams. A team of oxen consists of 
ten ; a number which has been found necessary in this country for 
drawing a loaded waggon ; and from this, some judgment may be 
formed of the general heaviness of the roads ; while, in the more 
difficult passes, sixteen or twenty oxen are often required. 
Having thus accomplished one of the principal objects of our 
present excursion, we prepared for departure on the following 
morning, under a promise, insisted upon by our kind host, that I 
should again take up my quarters at his house, when I passed 
through Tulbagh in my way out of the colony. 
