AFRICA. 
not teach ; and It Is eafy to afcertain this boun- 
dary by infpeding the trees on their banks. la 
their overflow they carry along with them 
reeds and grafs, which, being caught by the 
branches, remain fufpended 5 and atteft how fat 
the water has rifen. In the day-time we may 
without danger ftation ourfelves on the banks, 
under the flielter of the trees. In general, in-* 
deed, no (hade is to be found any where elfe ; 
and if an inundation fliould happen,there would 
at leaft be little or no rifk, as nothing could 
prevent its being feen ; but to remain thus 
fituated in the night, would be expofing onr«» 
felves imprudently, and efpecially during the 
winter monfoon. 
The rain having at length ceafed the third 
day^ I proceeded on my journey j and follow-* 
ing for three hours the courfe of the ftreatn 
downwards, I arrived at the confluence of a ri- 
vulet, called In the Hottentot language Ko^^ 
nas^ and by the Dutch Dwars-rhier (crofs*- 
river). This fliream, whlch^ hke the greater 
part of thofe in Africa, flows only during the 
rainy feafon, was fo deeply enclofed between 
banks in the place where we could crofs, that 
we did not obferve it till we were clofe upon 
0^2 its 
