1811. 
CAREL AND JACOB KRIEGER. 
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Caret Krieger, nephew to the Jacob Krieger who unfortunately ac- 
companied the expedition of Dr. Cowan, and son of a person of the 
same name, who was trampled to death by an elephant in the 
country of the Bushmen. 
These two brothers, having trespassed against the laws, fled 
from the colony, and, for many years, led a wandering life among 
the tribes on either side of the Gariep. Their ingenuity, together 
with their courage, enabled them to procure a subsistence in the 
deserts, and, in some measure, to gain the good-will of the natives. 
When the colony fell the second time into the hands of the English, 
the surviving brother, by an act of amnesty, was permitted to return 
within the boundary, and was living on a small farm in the Rogge- 
veld at the time when that expedition was set on foot. The know- 
ledge of the country, and the experience which he had gained during 
his extensive wanderings among the savages, occasioned his being 
selected, as peculiarly fitted for remedying any want of experience 
in the others ; and he was tempted to join their party, fated never 
to return. 
This young man spoke with evident pleasure of the different 
countries I was to pass through ; and so interwoven with his feelings, 
was the predilection he had imbibed for the mode of life of his early 
youth, that he expressed the strongest desire to accompany me, and 
seemed to regret that he had just purchased a farm. The truth, 
however, appeared to be, that he was on the point of being married. 
He still recollected something of the Sichudna and Koj^aqua lan- 
guages : the former of which he called Briqua, and wrote down about 
twenty words. 
The farm of Pieter Jacobs, being employed only for the rearing 
of cattle, was visited at this time by a slagters hiegt (butcher's man), 
for the purpose of purchasing a large number of sheep. A slag- 
ter's knegt is a person commissioned by a butcher in Cape Town to 
travel into the grazing districts, and buy up the number of sheep or 
oxen he may require ; for which the man pays the grazier, not in 
money, but in small notes of hand, called Slagters brief, previous- 
ly signed by his employer, and the validity of which is certified 
at the Fiscal's office. These are considered as good as cash, into 
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