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Our transit across the Orange River vvtis highly 

 amusing. In consequence of the depth of water, we 

 were obhged to make an elevated platform within 

 the waggons, on which to place our baggage. The 

 double line of oxen stoutly stemming the current, 

 the frantic gestures of the drivers, and the singular 

 appearance of the followers, now wading, now swim- 

 ming, laden with the lighter baggage, and urging 

 on the loose horses and sheep, altogether presented 

 a picture which I shall not readily forget. 



Before reaching Campbellsdorp, a missionary sta- 

 tion, we observed a large party of Corrannas en- 

 gaged in an attempt to run down an ostrich on foot 

 — a prodigy of speed which these people sometimes 

 achieve. Their prevailing dress is a cloak and cap 

 of leather, bedaubed, in common with their own 

 skins, with an unguent of grease and red ochre ; 

 but the exhortations of the missionaries have, in 

 some instances, caused this primitive garb to be 

 supplanted by leathern jackets and trowsers of 

 European fashion. At Campbellsdorp we were 

 kindly received by Mr. Bartlet the missionary, 

 but were disappointed at learning that the Chief 

 Waterboer was not at Griquastaad. Captain Cor- 

 nelius Kok was also absent, but his locum teneiw 

 being desirous of purchasing finery for his wife, 

 obliged us with three fat oxen in return for a glaring 

 stamped table-cloth, to wliich w'e added a pound of 

 tea. Mr. Bartlet considered himself well repaid 

 for a sturdy ox by a small canister of gunpowder. 



When near Daniels-kuil — a kraal of Griquas, or 



