. Lake Ngami; or, Explorations and discoveries during four years' wanderings in the wilds of southwestern Africa . footing,improvements are very apparent; and, doubtless, now thatthe colony has obtained its own Legislature, such improve-ments will become still more visible. No one can be at Cape-Town for a single day withoutbeing struck by the infinite variety of the human race en-countered in the streets: Indians, Chinese, Malays, CafFres,Bechuanas, Hottentots, Creoles, Afrikanders, half-castes ofmany kinds, negroes of every variety from the east and westcoasts of Africa, and Europeans of all
. Lake Ngami; or, Explorations and discoveries during four years' wanderings in the wilds of southwestern Africa . footing,improvements are very apparent; and, doubtless, now thatthe colony has obtained its own Legislature, such improve-ments will become still more visible. No one can be at Cape-Town for a single day withoutbeing struck by the infinite variety of the human race en-countered in the streets: Indians, Chinese, Malays, CafFres,Bechuanas, Hottentots, Creoles, Afrikanders, half-castes ofmany kinds, negroes of every variety from the east and westcoasts of Africa, and Europeans of all countries, form the motley population of the place. Of all these, with the exceptionof the Europeans, the Malays areby far the most conspicuous andimportant. They comprise, indeed,no inconsiderable portion of the in-habitants, and are, moreover, dis-tinguished for their industry andsobriety. Many of them are ex-ceedingly well off, and, not unfre-quently, keep their carriages andhorses. They profess the Moham-medan religion, and have their ownclergy and places of worship. Twothirds of the week they work hard,. TABLE MOUNTAIN. 25 and devote the remainder to pleasure, spending much of theirtime and money on their dress, more especially the latter seldom have any covering for the head; but themen tie round it a red handkerchief, over which they wearan enormous umbrella-shaped straw hat, admirably adaptedto ward off the suns rays, but useless and inconvenient inwindy weather. The Malays are usually very honest; but, strange to re-late, on a certain day of the year they exert their ingenuityin purloining their neighbors poultry, and, Spartan-like, donot consider this dishonorable, provided they are not detect-ed in the fact: To be taken, to be seen,These hare crimes accotinted been. To be at Cape-ToAvn, without ascending the far-famedTable Mountain, was, of course, not to be thought of. Theundertaking, however, is not altogether without danger. Onthe side of the town, ac
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