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angry roars, he walked off. The jackals were also 
noisy, but their cry is more amusing than terrific. 
20th. The night felt extremely cold, and in the 
morning the ground was covered with hoar frost, and 
the ice was half an inch thick. Thermometer at eight 
A.M. 28 ; thermometer at noon in the shade, 64 ; in 
the sun 84. Towards evening we left the Great Kosie 
Fountain, and at midnight reached the mountains 
which form the boundary to the S.W. of the Boo- 
tchuana countries. These mountains having no name, 
we called them Reyner Mountains. 
21st. At one o'clock in the morning we entered the 
Matchappee country, and at half past three o'clock 
we happily arrived at what we named Steven Fountain. 
A wolf who ran into the midst of our poor sheep, lost 
his life in the attempt ; and a little dog, that belonged 
to the young Bushman who accompanied us for a 
few days after entering his country, was crushed to 
death by the wheels of two waggons going over him. 
After breakfast we walked about three miles from 
Steven Fountain to view Krooman Fountain, from 
whence the river of that name proceeds. It is the 
most abundant spring of water I ever had an oppor- 
tunity to examine. I measured it at about a yard's 
distance from the rock from whence it flows, and 
found it three yards wide, and from fourteen to eigh- 
teen inches deep, but after a course of fifty or sixty 
miles it becomes invisible by running into plains of 
