296 Mr. masson’s Botanical Travels. 
from their girdle, reached down to their knees, and in 
fome meafure concealed their nakednefs. They have 
captains or chiefs over each Kraal, who claim the greateft 
part of the herds; the others feem only to be fervants, 
though they have every thing in common, and pay 
little refpedt to their fuperiors. Thefe Hottentots are 
called Gunaquas, but were mixed with another people 
whom the Dutch call CafFers, who border upon Terra 
de Natal. They were all armed with haffaguays, of 
which every one had eight or ten in his left hand. We 
found here the true Cape jaffemine, or gardenia Jlellata , 
and the coral tree, erethrina corallodendron. The cli- 
mate here differs much from that of the Cape. They 
have no S.E. wind, which is l'o troublefome there; their 
ftrongeft wind is from the S.W. They feldom have rain 
in fummer, though often thunder and lightning; the' 
clouds being attracted by the lofty mountains are fpent 
in fhowers before they reach the plain. 
13th, 14th, We made but very fhort ftages, employ- 
ing our time in collecting plants, all of which were 
new. The buffalo is numerous in this country : it is a 
fierce animal, and larger than the biggeft of our Englifli 
oxen. In the day-time they retire to the woods, which 
renders it very dangerous to botanize there. We here 
faw two lions for the firft time, at about 4 or 500 yards 
diftance; but they took no notice of us, keeping their 
eyes upon a clump of the capra dor c as, which were 
feeding at fome diftance from them. We fliot two of 
the buffaloes which proved good eating. 
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