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fupplied with every thing we could wifh for our re- 
frelhment, after fo long a voyage. The climate and 
country there are fo good, that the trees, fruits, and 
vegetables, both of the hot and the cold climates, 
flourifh and thrive in the greateft perfedtion. The 
Dutch there, are juft the fame kind of people they 
are in Holland : fo that, for variety’s fake, I took a 
jaunt to the Hottentots crawl-fhips, which I had a 
great curiofity to fee. I found Kolben’s account of 
them to be, in general, very juft. He takes no 
notice, however, of their mufic, which I found to 
be very tolerable ; their chief inflrument being a 
large cocoa nut-fhell, ftrung with guts, and fome- 
what refembling a guittar. I am convinced they 
have always had a belief of one Supreme Deity, 
and other fubordinate ones, as all'o of a future 
ftate. 
We found, by exadt and repeated obfervations, 
that the variation of the needle, at the Cape, was 
19°! ; though, in the lateft Variation-chart, it is laid 
down at 18 0 . 
We left that place the 20th of July j and during 
our long voyage to India, I frequently amufed myfelf 
with microfcopical obfervations, of which I fhall 
give you fome account ; becaufe, for what I know, 
fome of them may not have fallen under the notice 
of the writers on this fubjedt, who make no mention 
of that fpecies of animalcula , which fwarm in the 
atmofphere of the immenfe ocean, their proper 
element. 
As I could find no great variety of objedls on 
board the fhip, I endeavoured to produce animalcula , 
by the common methods (by pepper-water, hay, 
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