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( 135 ) carriage between the two towns is by waggons with fourteen or sixteen horses, the hire of which is thirty-five rix-dollars (6l. 2s.); the horses are small, but hardy; and bear much fatigue. Oxen are also used to draw the heavy waggons.

The women of the Cape, when young, are often pretty, but whether from their sendentarysedentary [sic] lives, or peculiar gross food, in a few years they grow unwieldy, and delicacy of shape is sunk beneath a load of fat. Their dress is English, and in this respect the severe sentence of Ovid on the fair sex in general, is peculiarly applicable to the Cape ladies;

The contrast between a gay, attentive, and well-dressed English officer, and