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JOURNEY ACROSS THE 
[1813. 
round the point of a hill we travelled westward over a 
desart of sand until eight, P.M. when we reached 
Vansittart Mountains, and travelled S.W. in which 
direction we continued till half an hour after midnight, 
when we halted in a corner formed by the hills, where 
there was no water. We named it World's-end-corner, 
from the remarkable solitariness of the place. 
We halted several times during this long and fatigu- 
ing journey over sand, especially after the going down 
of the sun, for among seven waggons there must often 
be something going wrong, either an ox becoming 
restive, or some part of the harness breaking; and 
when one waggon stops in such a country as this, the 
rest must wait for it, as it is dangerous to travel alone. 
17th. When day light appeared, to our great morti- 
fication we found that a fountain from whence we ex- 
pected water, was dried up : the disappointment was 
the greater, from knowing that we were two good 
days' journey from the Great River, which was the 
nearest place from whence we expected even a cup of 
water; but it was necessary, by a great exertion, to 
travel two days' journey in one. Some Bushmen with 
their chief, whose name was Owl, visited us, and gladly 
received a present of a little tobacco. The view from 
World's-end-corner was very extensive over the desart, 
in which the eye was relieved by little hills of various 
shapes rising up out of the sand. Thermometer at 
noon 80, at which time we began crossing Vansittart 
Mountains, which bound Griqualand to the westward. 
