CHAPTER III. 
JOURNEY FROM KAABl's KRAAL, TO THE BORDERS OF THE COLONY. 
We followed the general direction of the river, and in the course 
of this day's ride, crossed it four times. Thus far, its course had not 
been marked by tree or bush larger than those of the plains ; but 
here it began to assume a better character : besides a more constant 
supply of water, it was distinguished by abundance of reeds and 
bushes of greater size. 
We travelled till daylight began to fail ; when we took our 
night's station on the banks of the river, at Reed Station. Here my 
people prepared for me, as I was still weak from the fever, a sheltered 
sleeping-place, in the centre of a thick clump of reeds which stood 
on dry ground at a little distance from the water. 
lOth. On the following day's journey, the surface became gradu- 
ally more hilly as we advanced, but was every where thinly covered 
with small bushes, although in other respects it was a wide open 
