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try, from which the sources of considerably large rivers rise, 

 descending in opposite directions, like the Vaal River., Hart 

 River, southward, and the N'quatuani, Moriqua, and Lim- 

 popo, to the north ; when they trend afterwards easterly, and 

 most likely fall into Delagoa Bay. At about 24° E. Ion., that 

 line turns again towards south-east, as far as Shiloh, and 

 forms nearly a triangle. 



We remained one day near a hill, a short distance from the 

 Caledon River, called " Wolvekop" (Hill of Hyenas) ; it is 

 conical, and well deserves that name, on account of its occu- 

 pants. On our ascent towards the top of that hill, for botanical 

 and zoological research, we disturbed several spotted hyenas 

 from their usual resort; theypassed unhurt a heavy musket fire, 

 discharged by our men, who ascended to shoot some Redunca 

 Ltalandii, a kind of antelope, much resembling in habit our cha- 

 mois, and of which we had seen several from below. They were 

 so fortunate as to shoot a female specimen, and caught her 

 young male fawn alive, which we carefully tended, in order 

 to rear it ; but in spite of the utmost attention, it only sur- 

 vived the dam about a week, dying apparently of con- 

 vulsions. 



A fine woody procumbent Helichrysum (873), was growing 

 on the hill, its branches entirely covering the horizontal 

 parts of the sandstone rocks, of which that hill is composed, 

 hke patches oiSaxifraga on the Alps, and the numerous white 

 flowers contrasting agreeably with the darker objects which 

 surrounded them. A small Aponogeton, with junciform 

 leaves, wafted a sweet odour, peculiar to that genus of aqua- 

 "cs, over the neighbourhood ; it was growing close to our 

 ca mp, in a small pond of rain-water, which supplied us with 

 that necessary fluid. 



The Rhus erosa (Thunb.), one of the most conspicuous 

 s irubs of this country, occupies the rocky edges of precipices 

 0n tne hills. A curious cucurbitaceous plant (589), with a 

 ^ody stem and large yellow flowers, like a Cucumis or 

 Momordica, the foliage resembling Vitis guinquefolia, seems 



