205 JOURNEY IN THE BUSHMEN'S COUNTRY. [1813. 
At ten A.M. the bushes were larger than we had been 
accustomed to, and low trees appearing at a little 
distance, we considered them indications of our ap- 
proach to the Great River. We passed some wild 
bush men's huts formed of the branches of trees, but 
without any inhabitant. We left the Brak River, 
whose water continued salt, and travelled due N. 
We proceeded over a rise of red sand and tall grass, 
which extended about three miles ; we then passed 
over sand mixed with stones of various kinds, many of 
which would probably have been prized by European 
lapidaries, a few of these I picked up. Thermometer 
at noon, 64. 
