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" I'errelra, by way of returning the kind intention, laid liold 
" of the Kafler -and. broiled him alive ; bound the poor Ilot- 
" tentot to a tree, cut a piece of flesh out of his thigh, made 
him eat it raw, and then released him !" 
The first day's march beyond the Sweet Milk's Valley was 
across a tame tiat country, the road winding along the right 
bank of the Endless River ; a name whose fallacy was de- 
tected by crossing it the next day, just where it forms a 
■confluence with, and of course ends in, the Broad River. 
The latter, in the winter months, is a ^ast volume of water 
sufficient to float a ship of the line, but, in summer, not more 
than ankle deep. The distance from this river to Zwellen- 
dam, the seat of the Landrost and capital of the district so 
called, is only about nine miles, over a country that is capable 
of an extensive cultivation, but which is suffered to remain 
.almost. entirely an unproductive desert. 
As we knew this to be the only village that would occur in 
the course of our long journey, we thought it prudent to halt 
a day, in order to refresh the horses, to have their shoes 
removed or renewed, and the saddles repaired ; after which 
we continued our march, for three easy days, to a tolerably 
good farm-house called the Hogel Kraal, situated at the foot 
of the Attaquas Kloaf. The country we had passed was little 
calculated to excite any degree of interest ; the dwelhngs, as 
usual, were thinly scattered; the land under no regular sys- 
tem of tillage, exhibiting a barren waste, without a single 
tree, or even a shrub, that by its size or beauty would arrest 
the attciition of the traveller ; yet the soil of the greater part 
