WANDERINGS AND ADVENTURES 
IN THE 
INTERIOR OF SOUTHERN AFRICA. 
PART THE THIRD. 
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CHAPTER I. 
Leave Cape Town for Lattakoo—Stupendous Pass—Miseries of 
African Travelling—Neuwveld Mountains—Storm—Distressing 
Story— Klipspringer — Winterveld — Celebrated Lion-hunter— 
Pastoral state of the Boors—Beautiful appearance of the Country 
—HExcessive Heat—‘‘ Mirage’—Oxen alarmed at Lions—Run off 
with Waggons—Scarcity of Water—Hottentots prefer Water to 
Wine—Reach the Banks of the Orange River—Bushmen and 
Vultures—Flight of Locusts—Cross the River on a Raft—Soli- 
tary ride with a Bushman—Surprise a Party of Natives bivouack- 
ing on the Plain—Grigua Town. 
On the 17th September, 1831, I quitted Cape Town 
with the intention of making an excursion as far as 
Lattakoo, in the Bechuana country, in company with 
a friend who was preceeding to Beaufort. We took 
our departure on horseback, the travelling waggon 
having been dispatched by a different route, to the 
farm of Mr. de Vos, on the Hex River, where we 
purposed to meet it. 
Immediately in the rear of the Paarl village, which 
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