Travels in Southern Africa in the Years, 1803, 1804, 1805 And 1806 |
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Author:
| Lichtenstein, Hinrich |
ISBN: | 978-0-217-41120-2 |
Publication Date: | Aug 2009 |
Publisher: | General Books LLC
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $40.27 |
Book Description:
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAP. II. The Klatervalley.?Groenekloof.?Gansekraal.?The Van Reenens? Farms and Stud. ?Musical Slaves.?Le Vaillanfs Friend John Slaber.? Uylekraal.?Dexterity of the African Waggoners.?Teefontein.?Collection of Plants and Insects. To return from the digression which concluded my former chapter. To- jvards...
More DescriptionPurchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAP. II. The Klatervalley.?Groenekloof.?Gansekraal.?The Van Reenens? Farms and Stud. ?Musical Slaves.?Le Vaillanfs Friend John Slaber.? Uylekraal.?Dexterity of the African Waggoners.?Teefontein.?Collection of Plants and Insects. To return from the digression which concluded my former chapter. To- jvards evening we arrived at the Klavervalley, a place made not many years before by Mr. Sebastian Van Reenen. Here we were received with the utmost kindness and friendship by the owner and his whole family, and found the rest, which, after a journey of fourteen hours, we began so much to want Our waggons had arrived a short time before us, but they had found so much difficulty in getting through the sandy road, that it was deemed necessary to add another waggon to our former number, thereby to lighten the weight of them all. The necessary arrangements for this purpose could be made with great ease since we had determined to spend the following day in taking a survey of the neighbouring country. The next morning, therefore, I accompanied the Commissary-general, with some others of our fellow travellers, an hour's journey eastward to the 'part called the Groenekloof. This is the principal place of a district which goes under the same name, comprehending about thirty farms, some larger some smaller. In a still more extended sense the name of Groenekloof is applied to a neighbouring chain of hills broken by a number of little vallies; these hills abound in springs of excellent water, and afford besides good grass for the cattle. This domain was at the time of its firs cultivation devoted to feeding the oxen destined for furnishing the garrison, the hospitals, and the slaves, at the Cape Town. It has since been judged better to farm out the furnishing meat for these purposes to pri...