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JOURNEY IN SNEUBERG. 
[1813. 
lions that had passed that morning. At ten, A.M. we 
entered a pass between hills, w^hich Mr. Kicherer and 
friends were pleased to name Campbells Pass. In 
consequence of the late rains, the boors said the 
marks of our waggon wheels would be visible for four 
years : as we were thus commencing a path which 
perhaps may be travelled for hundreds of years to 
come, we endeavoured to proceed in the most level 
and direct way we could. When our people who were 
mounted were chasing some quachas, a fat and fatigued 
one fell behind his companions, which was soon sur- 
rounded by our horsemen, and brought with them to 
the waggons. 
When we approached the fountain we had come 
to examine, respecting its suitableness for a missionary 
station, two of our horsemen came hastily towards our 
waggons, on which the driver of our waggon said, they 
had seen a lion : we inquired how he knew it ; he said 
he knew it by their faces. But, like all other Hotten- 
tots, he had good eyes, for not one of us could at that 
distance distinguish one feature in their countenances. 
On reaching us they informed us that two lions were 
crouching among the reeds below. All the waggons 
drew up on an ascent immediately opposite the place 
where they lay ; and the wheels were chained, lest the 
roaring or appearing of the lions should terrify the 
oxen and make them run off, which frequently hap- 
pens on such occasions. Thirteen men then drew up 
about fifty yards from the lions, with their loaded 
muskets, and we who were only to be spectators stood 
