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derable diftance, we mull infallibly arrive at 
the former, at the diftance of forty or fifty 
leagues, more or lefs, according to the way 
by which the windings might oblige me to 
condudl my carriages and baggage. 
I had heard fuch different accounts of 
thefe mountains, that I was extremely defi- 
rous of feeing them, and of croffing them at 
mylelfure; but I was not able to reach them 
fo foon as I expefted, Befides, being in- 
formed that the elevation and coldnefs of 
their fummits rendered them uninhabitable 
during feveral months of the year, this new 
climate feemed to promife new producSions, 
and varieties of different kinds, worthy of 
exciting my curiofity. 
Though the heat was exceflive we ad- 
vanced full fix leagues ; and at one in the 
afternoon we flopped at the ruins of a kraal 
which had been dreadfully ravaged. Its 
wretched inhabitants had probably been fur- 
prifed and malTacred on the fpot, as the 
ground was ftrewed with human bones and 
fragments of carcafTes ; a difgufting fight 
from which we haftened to remove. 
Having fet out at four in the evening, af- 
ter a march of four hours, we reached a de- 
ferted 
