TRAVELS IN AFRICA. 
liappielt of all human beings. When a ftranger vlhts thenij 
he is treated with the greatefl:.- hofpitality ; and every thing 
they have is at his command. This, in general, is the cafe 
throughout the whole country. We proceeded on our jour¬ 
ney this day only about ten miles ; and in the evening came 
to a very mean cottage under the mountain. The inhabitants 
were poffeffed of a very large herd of cattle, particularly flieep ; 
but at this feafon many die of a difeafe, which they term, the 
Burning Sicknefs, in which they lofe moR of their hair. At 
this place is a pafTage over the mountain ; but there was now 
no poffibility of eroding it; we, therefore, proceeded to the 
weftward, by the diredlion of the boors, where they affured us 
we Ihould find a much better pafs. At night we came to a 
fmall ftream of water, where we relied. Here I colle8:ed 
many curious plants of Geraniums, Ixias, Morasas, Gladiolufes, 
See. and alfo a moll beautiful fpecies of Euphorbia. 
After leaving this place, we dlre£led our courfe north by 
well, through a hilly country. On our way we faw fevera! 
huts, which we fuppofed to belong to Hottentots ; but they 
proved fuch as I before deferibed, the winter refidence of the 
Dutch boors. At one of thefe huts was an European woman 
who had been wounded in the arm with a poifoned arrow. 
Great pains had been taken to cure her, but to no purpofe ; 
for at different periods of the year, an inflammation came on 
which was fucceeded by a partial mortification. She informed 
me, that the wound was not long in healing up; but that 
in two months afterwards there was a certainty of its break¬ 
ing out again ; and this had been the cafe for many years. 
