1812. 
A HOTTENTOT FAMILY REMOVING. 
549 
On our road this afternoon, we met a party of men, women, 
and children, with their huts and all their goods, removing from Klaar- 
water to the Asbestos mountains. The whole family, with mats, 
sticks, utensils, and skins, packed all together on the backs of 
the oxen, and moving along with a steady pace, presented a curious 
group, which might have been fancied to bear some resemblance to 
the journeyings of the people of patriarchal days, notwithstanding 
the dignity, and splendid robes, with which modern painters have 
thought proper to invest them. At least, their bringing to recol- 
lection, a party of Gypsies in England, removing from one county to 
another, is an idea less fanciful and speculative. We stopped a few 
minutes to answer each other's questions as to the whence, the 
whither, the when, and the wherefore, of our journeys ; nor did I 
forget to ask the men if they would like a trip to GraafFreynet. 
It was past nine at night, before we arrived at Klaarwater ; 
where nothing remarkable had occurred during our absence, except 
that the eight oxen we had left at Groote-doorn were all missing. 
19th. The next day, Philip and Mucliunka were sent to take 
the team to Groote-doorn, and make search after the others. They 
were absent the whole of the following day, and I was rendered 
exceedingly uneasy by the circumstance of the two dogs, which they 
took with them, returning in the evening alone. On the next 
morning, I sent off Speelman and Gert to follow the track of the 
lost oxen. In the meantime, Philip returned, after having sought in 
every direction ; and while doing this, the other team strayed away, 
and were at last found about half way towards Groote Fontein, a 
distance of above forty miles. 
Lactuca 
Desmochaeta 
Uniola 
Aptosimum 
Pappophorum 
Indigofera ? 
Cyperus 
Aristida, L. 2 sp. 
AiitJier-iam. 2 sp. 
Rottbollia 
Lappago 
Chloris 
Selago 
Bi-yonia 
Leptochloa, Pal. 
Uropetalum. 
