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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 sendentary 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;
Pars minima est, ipsa puella sui.
The contrast between a gay, attentive, and well-dressed English officer,
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