CHAPTER IX. 
JOURNEY IN THE COUNTRY OF THE KORAS, FROM KLAARWATER TO 
SENSAVAN. 
It was about four in the afternoon, when we took our last view of 
Klaarwater, and had fairly entered upon our journey into the Interior. 
The hills on this side of the country were well covered with shrubs *, 
though no where so thickly as to impede travelling. 
Although I intended to make but a short stage the first day, night 
overtook us on the road, and extreme darkness, added to deep ruts 
and holes, required our greatest care to avoid overturning the 
waggons. That no accident of this kind might happen on the first 
day, which would have been interpreted as a bad omen, I preceded 
on foot to discover the more dangerous places, in time to warn the 
drivers, and leaders. Philip was the driver of the great waggon, and 
Juli of the other ; and their leaders were Stuurman and Andries : an 
* Chiefly a Tarcho7ia7ithus like T. camphoratus, Spartium cuspidosum, and Rhus 
tridactyle a shrub of very delicate and pleasing appearance. 
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