1812. 
ARRIVAL AT KAABI'S KRAAL. 
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could it be possible that the savages had assisted Nature, and had 
taken the trouble of pulling down the adjoining stones, on finding 
them already cracked and loosened by the hand of time ? As the 
setting sun warned us not to lose a moment, I could not examine it, 
excepting at too great a distance ; but while the rest continued their 
route, I stopped my horse, and made a sketch of it. This scene 
is represented in Plate 1. and is marked on the map by the name 
of Pyramid Pass, (for the sake of euphony, instead of Obelisk Pass). 
Soon after leaving this spot, we crossed a low neck between 
rocky hills, and came into a small plain covered with grass, and 
enclosed on every side by mountains. Through this pleasant dale 
our river continued near us ; and, following it through an open- 
ing at the south-eastern corner of the plain, we there took up our 
station on its banks, at the foot of a hill on which stood the kraal of 
our friend Kaabi and of the Bushmen who had accompanied us from 
the Gariep. 
