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THE EVENING-FLOWER. 
1 — 3 July, 
and, with instructions that they should be conducted back into their 
own country, ordered them to be put on board a ship which was 
just then going to sail to Algoa Bay. Their principal leader was a 
chief of the name of Dansa or Danser. He was a man of high spirit ; 
and, feeling indignant at having been sent away from Cape Town 
against his inclination, openly avowed a hostile disposition against 
the colonists. We, however, agreed that it would be best to proceed 
as far as the boundary of the colony, where we should better ascer- 
tain the truth of this report ; and whether or not, they would be too 
strong for us : if they were, it was my determination to take the rout^ 
by Namaqualand. 
In the afternoon I took a walk to the waggon-maker's, and 
on the way collected some plants. * On my return, it being then 
nearly dusk, the delightful fragrance of the Avond-bloem (evening 
flower), a species of Ixia [Hesperanthera], began to fill the air, and 
led to the discovery of the plants. In the day-time their flowers, 
which, though white within, are of a dusky color on the outside, 
and, being then quite closed, do not readily catch the eye. 
2nd. Speelman, who had been sent out for game, returned in a 
couple of hours with the first-fruits of his hunting, a kind of antelope 
called Duyker by the colonists ; together with a small species of Otis, 
or bustard, called Korhaan (or Knorhaan), a name which is given also 
to two or three other kinds of Otis. This bird was about the size of 
a large domestic fowl, and, for eating, is esteemed one of the best of 
the feathered game. Its plumage having been plucked off before I 
* Stcehe rhinocerotis 
Antliospermum ciliare 
Anthospermum lanceolatum 
Strumarinfilifolia 
And species of the genera : — 
Hermannia 
Btichnera 
Cypenis, 2 5^. 
Oxalis, 5 sp. 
Psoralea 
Phylica 
Lidbeckia turbinata 
Watsonia jjlantaginea 
Amaryllis ciliaris 
Aspalathus 
Hesperanthera 
Glycine 
