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hundred miles to the fouth-eafl; but finding both my oxen 
and waggon in very indifferent order, for fo long a journey, I ’—^ 
altered my plan, and conceived the defign of making an ex- 
curfion to the Hentum, and part of the Bofhmen’s Land. 
This day we had feveral loud claps of thunder, and heavy 
rain. The variable flate of the weather detained me here fe¬ 
veral days, during which I colle£l:ed a variety of plants. 
When we left the Bokke Land, we directed our courfe eaft- 
ward, and arrived, on the twenty-third, at the houfe of Chrif* 
tian Bockchere, where I paffed the night. 
The following day we had fiormy weather, and heavy 
fhowers of rain and fleet; and towards the evening, hail and 
fhow. At eight in the evening, the thermometer was at 
forty-three degrees. The next morning a fevere hofl: killed 
moft of the corn, which at this time was about a foot in 
height; a circumftance which frequently occurs in this part 
of the country. 
I made an excurfion, on the twenty-feventh, to the north¬ 
ward, which is called the Boflimen’s Land, from its being 
inhabited by the Bufli Hottentots, who are a very different 
people from the other peaceable and well difpofed inhabitants 
of this region. They are in faft, fierce, cruel, and diihoneft. 
In this tour I vifited a houfe belonging to a Dutchman, 
who had lived here for many years. A few weeks before 
our arrival he had been attacked by the Bofhmen, who had 
