IN SOUTH AFRICA. 25 
March 29 and 30.—On the two following days we (the 
waggon party) made short journeys, first to Roelof Kamper’s, 
about three miles north of Cradock’s Kloof, and next to the 
house of the younger Kamper, in the Long Kloof. From 
the former place, the Governor and most of the party set off 
to ride to the village of George, over Cradock's Kloof, a pass 
celebrated for its steepness and difficulty. I crossed it in 
returning to the Cape in June, and shall have an opportunity 
of describing it in another chapter. Between Saffraan Kraal 
and Groot Doorn River, (which latter flows from the moun- 
tains about the Cradock Pass, and joins the Olifants River) 
the country is of a Karroo-like character: it is destitute of 
grass, heath, large shrubs, and trees, but produces a great 
variety of low-growing succulent plants, of the genera Mesem- 
bryanthemum, Euphorbia, Crassula, and Cotyledon, thinly 
covering the hard dry ground. The soil appeared to be no- 
thing but the superficial detritus of the soft shaly rock. There 
are ostriches on this Karroo, but we had not the good fortune 
to see any. 
I ought to have mentioned, that Major Michell informed 
me, the Zebra is still found among the mountains near 
Attaquas Kloof, and he once saw four of them so far tamed 
by a colonist of the neighbourhood, as to be harnessed to draw 
a light waggon. 
In these two days I had a tolerable opportunity of botaniz- 
ing, but did not find much that was newtome. The country 
was of an extremely arid character, except along the course of 
the little streams (Note E) ; and on the hills near the younger 
Kamper's residence,the bushes have been burnt to a consider- 
able extent, a practice generalin this country, and advantageous 
to the'cattle, but very provoking to abotanist. Here, however, 
was plenty of that curious plant called by the colonists Paarde 
Kapok, * or Horse-cotton, with its stem and flowers enveloped 
in a dense woolly coat of singular whiteness. | 
Our party re-assembled on the 30th at Kamper’s, but Ma- 7 
jor Michell left us to return to England, to my "pee for. I E : 
* Lanaria plumosa, Linn. Argolasia lint dui 
