37^i TRAVELS IN 
pofed to flop here only one day, I remained 
three days. We had ftill a great extent of 
country to traverfe, fome enormous mountains 
to crofsjand great difficulties to encounter in the 
defarts of Camdebo; the awful afpeO: of which 
every where prefent, inftead of the verdure 
and natural gardens of the Pampoen-Rraal, 
nothing but hideous rocks, fands, and flints, 
fometimes grey, fometimes reddifh, and fome-- 
times of a yellow colour. As I approached 
towards the plantations danger decreafed , and 
ftill adhering to my ideas, I flattered myfelf 
with the hope of more enjoyments. If I ex- 
cept therefore the places where I had juft 
halted, I followed my plan with equal con- 
flancy, when I returned and when 1 departed ; 
but I embraced the opportunity which chance 
had afforded me, by falling in with thefe two 
brothers, to procure provifions for the fub- 
lifl:ence of my people, and I took precautions 
accordingly. They fupplied me with a large 
quantity of bifcuit ; and I made a grateful re- 
turn for this eflTential fervice, by giving them 
in exchange powder, fhot, and gun-flints ; all 
valuable articles, which they had long been in 
want of, though it is indifpenfably neccfliirythat 
a plantation fliould - always be.^ provided with 
6 them, 
