AFRICA. £65 
t?v^here to their view the fame fcorched and un- 
produdlve furface. I now reproached my- 
felf for the valuable time I had wafted on the 
banks of the Elephants-River, by which my 
cattle had been deprived of the little ftrength 
that remained to them, and were rendered in- 
capable of gaining a lefs fatal diftrid. We, 
however, piirfiied our way through the naked 
fands, exhaufted, melancholy and hopelefs,. 
At length I perceived at a diftance the KrahkeeU 
iClip (rock of difcord), where, I had been 
told, was a deep and fpacious hollow ; and the 
late rains it was poflible might have filled it 
with water. As we drew nearer, we imagined 
that upon the borders of this hollow we faw 
fome waegons : an idea that filled us vvith joy 
and revived our hopes. We inferred from 
this appearance, that the cavities of the rock 
niuft infallibly abound with water ; and as to 
the carriages, whether they were the property 
of a Hottentot or belonged to fome traveller, 
we mi^;ht promife purfelves certain informa- 
tion of the joute we had to purfue. Alas! 
it was all a delufion. t'pon our approach the 
waggons difappeared, and in their ftead two 
(gnormous elephants prefented themfelves tp 
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