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CONTENTS AND 
17 June, 
hand, the greater advantage of carrying with me a judgment un- 
biassed and unprejudiced by either the opinions or the mistakes, the 
ignorance or the misrepresentations of others. I wished to see things 
for myself, and to form my own opinions, independent of every 
guide but facts. 
For those who may feel a curiosity to know, more particularly, 
the contents of my waggon when it left Cape Town, and in the hope 
of its affording some assistance or useful hints to those who may 
hereafter undertake a similar journey, a list of some of the articles is 
here inserted. 
Goods as presents to the chiefs, and for 
bartering with the natives : — 
Black, white, and blue porcelain beads, 
of a small size; these being the 
kinds most admired 
Red porcelain and glass beads. These 
sorts were less acceptable 
Gilt rings, with factitious gems 
Brass rings 
Blue check handkerchiefs 
Blue check cottons 
Plain, gilt, and ornamented buttons 
Tobacco 
Snuff 
Snuff-boxes 
Knives 
Pocket tinder-boxes, and steels 
' Looking-glasses 
Brass wire 
Sheets of copper and tin 
Spike nails. 
Clothing and blankets for my own Hot- 
tentots. 
Arms and ammunition : — 
Six muskets, and powder-horns 
A fowling-piece, and shot-belt 
A large riffle, carrying a ball of the 
weight of two ounces 
Two cases of pistols, and belt 
A cutlass 
Musket balls 
Four barrels of gunpowder 
Bags of shot, of all sizes 
Gun-flints, and bullet-moulds 
Lead and tin, in bars. 
Carpenter's tools : such as 
Saws 
Hammers 
Hatchets 
Felling-axe 
Adze 
Sledge-hammer 
And a variety of the more useful sorts 
Spikes and nails 
Spades, pickaxe, and mattock. 
Waggon-stores. 
Ropes and lines 
Sacks, and canvas bags 
Spare canvas, and sail-needles 
Prepared ox-hide, and goat-leather 
Spare bamboo whip-stocks, and thongs 
Spare yokes, and halters 
Tar, pitch, grease, and resin 
Spare linch-pins, hooks, and rings. 
A horn lantern 
A dark lantern 
An iron melting-ladle. 
The English colors. 
Provisions : — 
Rice 
Bread and biscuit 
Flour and wheat 
Wine, rum, and brandy. 
Fish-hooks and lines 
