CHAP. VI. 
OCCURRENCES IN TRAVELLING FROM GEORGE TO 
BETHELSDORP. 
A FTER taking leave of the Landdrost and family, 
thanking them for their kind attention, we left George 
at five P.M. Most vivid lightening issued from the 
clouds which hung upon the high mountains on our 
left, and we had a few loud peals of thunder. The 
darkness of the night, about seven o'clock, caused the 
flashes to appear with peculiar grandeur. We were 
travelling to a timber boor s, (M. Standard), at Papoon 
Kraal, who had kindly offered his oxea to take us 
over an extremely bad kloff. 
There are various ways of helping forward the work 
— the poor slaves and Hottentots, who had neither 
silver nor gold to give, assisted in yoking our oxen 
to the waggon, which is always a troublesome 
business — a black man offered to drive our spare 
oxen a stage, and this boor to lend us oxen to take us 
over the kloof — indeed the boor's wife told us that the 
kloof is so distressing to their beasts, that had one of 
