r2S TRAVELS I N 
break, a confiderable and fuperfluous expence 
was neceffary to fupport them and to keep 
them in motion. They required a provifion 
of tools and of iron ; a great number of men 
to condod: them and to look after the cattle ; 
and, above all, double relays— an objed: attend- 
ed with much coft, and extremely difficult to 
be procured ; becaufe, at a certain diftance from 
the colonies, it was not eafy to find cattle ready 
trained for the draught. I have already men- 
tioned with how much trouble and difficulty 
I was able to procure, among the fnowy 
mountains of Camis, a few wretched oxen, 
which I foon faw perifli on the road without 
being of any ufe to me. 
When 1 left my camp on the banks of 
Orange- River, I had been particularly an- 
xious to be affured whether it would be pof- 
fible for ray carriages to follow me in my fu- 
ture courfe. I alfo propofed to myfelf to 
found, in fome meafure, different favage na- 
tions, to try their charader, and endeavour to 
learn how far I could truft myfelf to them, 
and rely on their affiftance. The knowledge 
of thefe two points was abfolutely neceflary to 
enable me to continue my journey: without 
it 
