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A CAPE WAGGON. 
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used for hoisting up the axletrees when the wheels are taken off to 
be greased. The teerput (tar-bucket) is usually suspended from a 
hook in the onder leerboom. The drag-chain is fixed to a ring in 
the afterpart of the tang^ behind the fore axletree. The remschoen 
(lock-shoe or skid), is a log of wood, generally about eight inches 
square, and nearly two feet long, having a groove in it to receive the 
felly of the wheel ; and is furnished in front with a stout loop of 
twisted raw hide. The mianner in which the wheels are skidded, 
may be seen by the preceding engraving : it obviates the great 
danger which would arise from the skid suddenly flying from under 
the fell}^, as, in this mode, the wheel in such case would still remain 
locked. The trektouw (draw-rope or trace), is a long rope made of 
twisted thongs of raw hide, made fast by a hook to the staple at the 
end of the pole, and having iron rings attached to it at proper 
distances, into which rings the yokes are hooked. The yokes * are 
straight, and pierced with two pair of mortices to receive the juk- 
schei which fits in loosely, and answer to what in English husbandry 
are called the bows : but are merely two straight pegs, one on each 
side of the ox's neck, and having notches on their outer sides to 
receive the nek-strop (neck strap) The rie7n (or halter), is a leathern 
thong about twelve feet in length, with a noose at one end, by 
which it is fixed round the ox's horns. It is used for holding and 
managing the animal, while yoking and unyoking ; and afterwards 
for making it fast, if necessary: it is always left coiled round its horns, 
except when turned loose to graze. The whip, and the shambok have 
been already described, f 
The principal and very important advantage of a Cape-built 
waggon consists in its sides, bottom, and carriage, not being joined 
* The engraving at the end of the chapter exhibits in their relative proportion, 
according to the subjoined scale, the various articles here described : a yoke with its neck- 
strap, &c., complete; the drag-rope; the pole; the halter; the skid; the lever; the whip, 
and the shambok ; together with a horizontal plan of the fore axletree, and part of the 
pole; besides a vertical section of the fore wheels, axletree, body of the waggon, and tilt. 
f At pages 52 and 86. 
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