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BUSHMAN TABLE-MOUNTAIN. 
12 March, 
to eat of it, the fat, which was yellow and oily, always smelt rather 
strong and disagreable ; but I cannot assert that such food was ever 
found to be unwholesome. 
12^7^. During the night and this forenoon, there was much rain ; 
and being thus prevented drying our meat, we departed from Quakka 
Station at an early hour. Soon after setting out, we crossed the river 
twice J after which we turned to the south-east in order to visit a 
kraal which lay in that direction ; having on our right some high 
mountains in the distance, and before us an exceedingly large table 
mountain, which had been seen for the first time, on our last day's 
journey. This latter is pointed out on my map, by the name of the 
Bushman Table-Mountain, and is very remarkable by the perfect re- 
gularity of its form, and by having at each end a small, but equally 
high, mountain standing in advance, and apparently separated from 
it down to the base. Farther behind this mountain, were several 
others of the same formation, and which extended beyond the visible 
horizon. From the distance and spot at which it was viewed, it 
appeared inaccessible, being surrounded on all sides by a precipice ; 
but experience teaches that however steep and lofty a mountain may 
appear, its summit should not be pronounced inaccessible until its 
ascent have been attempted on every side. I was induced, how justly 
I know not, to consider it of greater height than all the other moun- 
tains in this part of the country, by the circumstance of a cloud 
resting upon it, an appearance which had not been seen since we 
quitted the Roggeveld. 
At a little after three in the afternoon we arrived at the kraal, 
and unpacked our oxen by the side of a rocky hillock at the distance 
of two hundred yards. 
I was received by the inhabitants with repeated acclamations of 
Tway I Tway ! * and with every demonstration of their being glad 
at seeing me : although I do not flatter myself that their joy was 
entirely personal, as the words Gooen ddkha ; Tabakka ! Gooen dakka ; 
* Their word of salutation. It is pronounced as the Dutch word tvoee, and would 
be written toue by a Frenchman. 
