318 VIEW of plattenberg's bay. 



dividual, residing at Zonder End River, had a stack 

 of about thirty thousand sheaves completely soaked 

 through and entirely spoiled. 



Late in the afternoon we passed the residence of 

 the Veld Cornet S. Radmayer, a person celebrated 

 in this country for his . breed of horses, continuing 

 our route by moonlight, and at an advanced hour of 

 night uitspanned near the farm of John Huitze. 

 The heat being exceedingly oppressive towards the 

 middle of the following day, obliged us to pitch our 

 tents until sunset, when we again took advantage of 

 the cool evening for the continuance of our journey. 

 When we halted, considering the oxen too much 

 fatigued to stray far from our waggon, and no cul- 

 tivated land being near, we felt under no apprehen- 

 sion of their committing a trespass, and therefore 

 suffered them to go at large ; but in the morning 

 they were nowhere to be found. While the Hot- 

 tentots went in search of them, I ascended the sum- 

 mit of the mountain, at the foot of which we had 

 slept, from whence to the westward I had a most 

 extensive view of Plattenberg's Bay and the Knysna, 

 with the open sea beyond it, lashing the rocky coast, 

 and sending up the spray like a thick mist in the 

 distance ; while an immense chain of mountains 

 flanked the shore as far as the eye could reach, 

 presenting an impassable barrier to the boisterous 

 waves. The Hottentots succeeded at length in re- 

 covering our oxen, when we resumed our journey, 



