2IO TRAVELS IN 
the twelve that already compofed the team. In 
this manner we paffed the plantation of Jofias 
Ingelbregt, and at length quitted the ferpen- 
tine courfe of the Kruys, which waters this 
wretched country, and reached Swart-bas- 
Kraal. There are however men who, fandy 
and miferable as it is, inhabit this diftrid:, and 
cultivate the few fpots of lefs barren land which 
are to be found there. One of them, named 
Hans Van Aart, had a plantation at Lange 
Valey (Long Lake), w^here I was obliged to 
fpend the night, and farther on w^as another 
belonging to Herraanes Lauw. I did not ftop 
at the houfe of the latter ; in confequence of 
which I was forced to encamp on a dry plain, 
where I could not find a fingle drop of water 
to refrefli my cattle. By the way I had met 
with a prodigious number of partridges, and 
had killed about thirty, which I intended for 
my own fupper and that of my people. My 
Guftom, on fuch occafions, w^as to boil my 
game ; for I had obferved that, when broil- 
ed or roafted, the fmeli of the meat, being 
conveyed to a diftance by the winds^ attrafted 
during the night a number of hyaenas and 
jackalls; which being obferved and driven away 
