48 KLOOF AND KARROO. 



We had learned from Mr. Piet Maynier, who 

 was acquainted with our future host and hostess, 

 the exact locaUty of our destination, Naroekas Poort ; 

 and, further, that we had come some distance out of 

 our way, and should have to partly retrace our steps, 

 for two days or more, in an oblique south-easterly 

 direction, across Camdeboo. We had also very 

 fortunately chanced upon a young English farmer, 

 travelling for a good part of this journey by the 

 same road. On the fourth morning, therefore, of 

 our stay in GraafF Reinet, once more we collected 

 our impedimenta, blithely blew our horn, and drove 

 out of the town. 



