CHAPTER VII. 
RIDE FROM TULBAGH TO THE PAARL, AND THENCE TO STELLENBOSCH. 
April 19th. Early this morning we took leave of Mr. Ballot, 
at whose house we had experienced the most friendly attention. 
Although strongly urged to remain a day longer, as the weather had 
every appearance of being rainy^ we unfortunately resisted his per- 
suasion, and took our departure ; but scarcely had we lost sight 
of the house, before the rain commenced. It continued to fall 
without intermission the whole of the day ; yet still, under the 
hope that it might soon clear up, we resolved to keep on our way. 
At the entrance of the Roodezands Kloof (Red-sand Pass), we 
stopped to pay a trifling toll, which is levied to defray the expense 
of keeping this pass in repair. But it will readily be believed, 
that no more of the money is laid out on that service, than just 
sufficient to make it passable, when it is stated that these tolls 
