However, they did not seem at all displeased at our visit, but presented us with a sweet candy they call Dulce, and some artificial flowers, in return for which Mr.Smith* (* The botanist.) gave them a dollar.

In general these people appear to be a merry, good-natured people, and are courteous to and appear happy to see strangers.

We found this always the case, although they said we were no Christians: but they generally took care to make us pay well for what we had.

They live principally upon fruits and roots, are fond of singing and dancing, and upon the whole they live as lazily, as contentedly, and in as much poverty as any French peasant would wish to do." The Cape of Good Hope was reached in October, and Flinders told Captain Pasley what he thought of the Dutch colonists: "The Dutch, from having great quantities of animal food, are rather corpulent.

Nevertheless they keep up their national characteristic for carefulness.