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owe to her an account of all the secrets of" my heart ; and this predilection , which I cannot forego for the remote asylum in which I am destined to take up my residence by her side , is an additional homage that I render to the people still worthy of practising her lessons . ' Land of repose , of ignorance , and of felicity ; land that without toil hast o long nourished me ; ye silent rocks , where I deposited all remembrance , and all regret of the past ; ye inchanting solitudes , troubled by no sigh , and soiled b should £ Frenchman chance to
y no tyranny ; ome wander upon your borders , open to him your delightful retreats , and render still more august the inestimable blessings which his exertions have obtained for him V It appears , from some subsequent parts of the first volume , that it was the intention of our Author to proceed northward from the Cape , and after pursuing his journey across the whole Continent of Africa , to descend , by the course of the Nileto the MediterraneanThis intentionhoweverwas
ne-, . , , ver accomplished ; nor can we think possible to any individual , however enterprising he may be . During his stay at Cape Town , Mr . Le Vaillant had an opportunity of observing much of the manners of the Dutch colonists , of which he gives frequent details . In the course of a short tour into Hottentot Holland he obtained some curious information as to the tenure of lands in the neighbourhood of the Cape .
' I can no where so properly relate , as here , the manner in which grants of land were formerly made in this so long uncultivated country , and the usages that still take place tipon the subject . I could wish the reader to be particularly attentive to this account , in which he will discover something of the origin of human possessions and establishments . I owe it to chance , which direfted my steps to the Rooye-Zand , or Reel-sand colony .
5 Fatigued with the extreme heat of the weather , and desirous of resting myself , I one day at noon entered an habitation that offered itself , where it was my intention to remain till the cool of the evening . There was nobody in the house but a young woman , of a charming figure , and who appeared to be about sixteen years of age . I paid my respects to her , and , agreeably to the customs of the country , saluted her . My eyes involuntarily wandered round the room . Conceiving that my astonishment arose from the circumstance
of her being alone , she anticipated what she imagined I was about to say , by telling me that her father and mother were absent upon business . Surprised they should be from home m the burning heat of the day , I asked by what accident they had been compelled to leave her . " Why , '" said she , " we were told this morning that somebody had planted a baaken ( a stake ) upon our estate ; and my parents , alarmed at the intelligence , immediately set off to enquire upon the spot into the truth of the report . " At a loss to conceive ;
how a stake driven into the ground could be of so much importance as to oblige these planters , contrary to their usual custom , to expose themselves to the intense heat of the sun , and even to abandon their daughter , I replied . very simply , that if one man , passing by , had planted this stake , the next comer would perhaps take it away again , and that there was nothing in the circumstance so extremely urgent . I even offered , if her parents did not succeed in discovering itto pull it myself if I passed that . The business
, up way , she said , depended neither upon them , upon me , nor any other person . But hsr father , she added , would shortly be at home , who would give me a more particular-history of thebaaken . Meanwhile she invited me to take some refreshment , and to bear her company . , ' Her parents , as she had supposed , soon arrived . The father caressed her for detaining me , and I was loaded with civilities on the part of the mother .
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Review Of New Publications.
owe to her an account of all the secrets of" my heart ; and this predilection , which I cannot forego for the remote asylum in which I am destined to take up my residence by her side , is an additional homage that I render to the people still worthy of practising her lessons . ' Land of repose , of ignorance , and of felicity ; land that without toil hast o long nourished me ; ye silent rocks , where I deposited all remembrance , and all regret of the past ; ye inchanting solitudes , troubled by no sigh , and soiled b should £ Frenchman chance to
y no tyranny ; ome wander upon your borders , open to him your delightful retreats , and render still more august the inestimable blessings which his exertions have obtained for him V It appears , from some subsequent parts of the first volume , that it was the intention of our Author to proceed northward from the Cape , and after pursuing his journey across the whole Continent of Africa , to descend , by the course of the Nileto the MediterraneanThis intentionhoweverwas
ne-, . , , ver accomplished ; nor can we think possible to any individual , however enterprising he may be . During his stay at Cape Town , Mr . Le Vaillant had an opportunity of observing much of the manners of the Dutch colonists , of which he gives frequent details . In the course of a short tour into Hottentot Holland he obtained some curious information as to the tenure of lands in the neighbourhood of the Cape .
' I can no where so properly relate , as here , the manner in which grants of land were formerly made in this so long uncultivated country , and the usages that still take place tipon the subject . I could wish the reader to be particularly attentive to this account , in which he will discover something of the origin of human possessions and establishments . I owe it to chance , which direfted my steps to the Rooye-Zand , or Reel-sand colony .
5 Fatigued with the extreme heat of the weather , and desirous of resting myself , I one day at noon entered an habitation that offered itself , where it was my intention to remain till the cool of the evening . There was nobody in the house but a young woman , of a charming figure , and who appeared to be about sixteen years of age . I paid my respects to her , and , agreeably to the customs of the country , saluted her . My eyes involuntarily wandered round the room . Conceiving that my astonishment arose from the circumstance
of her being alone , she anticipated what she imagined I was about to say , by telling me that her father and mother were absent upon business . Surprised they should be from home m the burning heat of the day , I asked by what accident they had been compelled to leave her . " Why , '" said she , " we were told this morning that somebody had planted a baaken ( a stake ) upon our estate ; and my parents , alarmed at the intelligence , immediately set off to enquire upon the spot into the truth of the report . " At a loss to conceive ;
how a stake driven into the ground could be of so much importance as to oblige these planters , contrary to their usual custom , to expose themselves to the intense heat of the sun , and even to abandon their daughter , I replied . very simply , that if one man , passing by , had planted this stake , the next comer would perhaps take it away again , and that there was nothing in the circumstance so extremely urgent . I even offered , if her parents did not succeed in discovering itto pull it myself if I passed that . The business
, up way , she said , depended neither upon them , upon me , nor any other person . But hsr father , she added , would shortly be at home , who would give me a more particular-history of thebaaken . Meanwhile she invited me to take some refreshment , and to bear her company . , ' Her parents , as she had supposed , soon arrived . The father caressed her for detaining me , and I was loaded with civilities on the part of the mother .