Starting from Grahamstown on a hired Cape cart I entered British Kafraria somewhere between that town and Fort Beaufort. A “Cape cart” is essentially a South African vehicle, and is admirably adapted for the somewhat rough roads of the country. Its great merit is that it travels on only two wheels;--but then so does our English gig. But the English gig carries only two passengers while the Cape cart has room for four,--or even six. The Irish car no doubt has both these merits,--carries four and runs on two wheels; but the wheels are necessarily so low that they are ill adapted for passing serious obstructions. And the Cape cart can be used with two horses, or four as the need may be. A one-horse vehicle is a thing hardly spoken of in South Africa, and would meet with more scorn than it does even in the States. But the chief peculiarity of the Cape cart is the yoke of the horses, which is somewhat similar in its nature to that of the curricle which used to be very dangerous and very fashionable in the days of George IV. With us a pair of horses is now always connected with four wheels, and with the idea of security which four wheels give. Though the horse may tumble down the vehicle stands. It was not so with the curricle. When a horse fell, he would generally bring down his comrade horse with him, and then the vehicle would go,--to the almost certain destruction of the pole and the imminent danger of the passengers. But with the Cape cart the bar, instead of passing over the horse’s back--the bar on which the vehicle must rest when for a moment it loses its balance on the two wheels with a propulsion forwards--passes under the horses’ necks, with straps appended to the collars. I have never seen a horse fall with one of them;--but I can understand that when such an accident happens the falling horse should not bring the other animal down with him. The advantage of having two high wheels,--and only two,--need not be explained to any traveller.