CHAPTER X. 
JOURNEY FROM SENSAVAN TO THE KAMHANNI MOUNTAINS. 
From Sensavan the country was generally level and open, and 
abounding in tall dry grass, of so great a height that the oxen were 
half hid as they passed through it ; and our party had exactly the 
appearance of riding through fields of ripe corn.* 
This days-journey was, notwithstanding the abundance of grass, 
the most rocky of any between the Gariep and Litakun, as large spaces 
frequently occurred, in which the surface was a natural pavement of 
pure rock, in the fissures of which here and there grew a few shrubs. 
In some places this rock was of a brown color, and seemed outwardly 
as if scoriated ; although it was certainly not volcanic or changed by 
the action of fire. It was a primitive limestone, and seemed to be in 
many parts coloured by some ferrugineous property ; it was of the 
* A similar scene is represented in the 26th vignette. 
