JOURNEY ACROSS THE 
[1815. 
"My father said I was going with strange people, and 
must be obedient, and perhaps I should get some^ 
thing ; and while with them he should take care of my 
wife and child, and when I got education and returned 
I should be able to teach them." 
24th. Our Bushman was in the habit of smoking 
wild hemp, which stupifies and constantly inclines to 
sleep. At one, we were all in motion, ascending to a 
pass between hills, which was full of bushes and stones. 
A plant called the Bushman's Soap was very plentiful, 
which much resembles the ice plant; the shining par- 
ticles with which it is covered, on being touched, 
turned out to be only small globes of water, which the 
plant has the power of retaining. 
During the day we travelled through three passes 
among large rocks, which we found like the Scylla and 
Charibdis of the ancients — in trying to escape one, 
we sometimes struck against another. Our men, who 
were in advance, saw three lions pursuing a lierd of 
quachas, who fled towards them; on seeing which, 
our men fled also towards the waggons, followed by 
the lions, but tliey did not disturb us. The one half of 
this day's journey was N.W. by N. the other half 
nearly E. Thermometer, at noon, 60: at three, P.M. 
70 : at sun-set, 68. Some of our people were em- 
ployed part of the evening in teaching the Bushman 
the letters of the alphabet. After supper we brought 
him into the tent, and asked him a few more questions. 
What he thought the most wonderful thing he had 
