20 ARRIVE AT THE ORANGE RIVER. 
animals immediately rush, and are speared by those 
who happen to be nearest to them. 
On ascending a small height we discovered the 
site of the long-looked-for pool, but to our great 
mortification and disappointment it was quite dry. 
We perceived about this time another gems-bok, and 
pursued it some time; but it being scarcely possible 
to endure the scorching rays of the sun, we gave 
up the chase, and on our return, started a young 
one of the same species, which we succeeded 
in taking alive. It was the size of a small calf, 
extremely wild and vicious. About mid-day we 
arrived at an eminence overlooking the much-cele- 
brated Orange River, the waters of which were un- 
usually high. The sight of this broad and noble 
stream under such circumstances baffles description, 
and can only be duly appreciated by those who, 
like ourselves, may have traversed a parched and 
desert waste under the burning rays of an African 
sun. Not being able to take the waggon down 
beneath the shelter of the willows which thickly 
studded the banks, we had no alternative but to 
uitspan in a bed of loose scorching sand, without 
tree or bush to screen us from the sun. ‘The cattle, 
as they were unyoked, rushed eagerly into the water 
to slake their raging thirst: indeed such was their 
impatience to plunge into the stream, that it was 
with the greatest difficulty they were restrained from 
