TRAVELS IN 
and the second ten miles beyond the first. No others appeared 
either to the right or to the left, and the surface of the coun- 
try was just as barren and naked as any part of the Karroo. 
The third farm-house we passed was fifteen or sixteen miles 
beyond the second and this was the last that occurred till we 
reached the Drosdy, or the residence of the landrost, which 
was about ten miles farther. It was late in the evening of the 
thirtieth before we arrived at this village, at the entrance of 
which the landrost was received by a body of farmers on horse- 
back, who welcomed him by a discharge of several platoons 
of musquetry. 
