Khoekhoe Village on the Orange River

Hand-colored aquatint showing Khoekhoe villagers in the process of carrying sheep across the Orange River. A hut can be seen on the bank, with goats tethered to short posts a little closer to the water. This scene is described as follows by the author:

Their huts are composed of rush mattings spread over bended sticks; they are of an hemispherical form, about six feet high, and eighteen in diameter, with an aperture on the side for an entrance. The trees on each side of the river, in the vicinity of this village, are tall and spreading: among which a species of mimosa was the most abundant. Their manner of swimming across the river with their sheep and goats, as introduced in this plate, appeared somewhat singular. A man lays himself on the trunk or branch of a large tree, about six or seven feet in length, into which at a few inches distance from one of its extremities, a pin is fixed, which the swimmer holds perpendicularly with one hand, while the other is employed in keeping the head of the animal he carries with him above water. By directing the point of the log obliquely against the current, and at the same time striking with his feet, he, in some degree, prevents his float from drifting with the stream.