SOUTHERN AFRICA. 259 
The following day, after ten hours travelling directly south, 
over a level country, brought us to the highest ridge of moun- 
tains that run across the southern angle of Africa. It might 
be considered as a continuation of the Compass-berg before 
noticed, though there are several interruptions in the inter- 
jacent chain. At this part it had the name of Zuure-berg, 
or the Sour Mountain. The waters that issue from its sides 
run in opposite directions. Those that take a northerly 
course fall into the Orange river; and the united streamlets, 
flowing to the southward, form at length the Great Fish river 
which divides the colony from the Katler country. 
Early on the morning of the seventh, in consequence of 
one of the party having asserted that some years ago he had 
met with the drawing of an unicorn in a kloof of the Zuure- 
berg, we set out upon an excursion across this mountain. 
Paintings or drawings of a variety of animals we found in 
several places, but none which bore the least resemblance to 
a quadruped with a single horn. I had frequently been 
assured by many of the boors, that representations of unicorns 
were commonly found among drawings of this kind ; but 
none of them as yet had been able to point out to me the 
drawing of such an animal, though we had visited several 
caverns in the Bosjesmans' country solely for that purpose. 
If, however, we were disappointed in not finding the object 
that had been the occasion of this day's excursion, we were 
amply repaid for the inconvenience and fatigue of an ex- 
posure of eight hours to the scorching rays of an unclouded 
sun, by a variety of other interesting subjects that were con- 
stantly occurring. In no part of our travels had we met 
