37S 
JOURNEY ACROSS THE 
[1813. 
those who were with him dug up cold sand and put it 
on his back, which he was obliged to do, from bush to 
bush, until he reached the river, 
22nd. Mr. and Mrs. Janz, Bern, Hendric, and N. 
Bern, came across in the morning and spent the day 
with us in worship, which obliged us to undergo a se- 
cond time the pain of parting. Mr. Janz preached in 
the morning, Mr. Reed in the afternoon, and I in the 
evening. Thermometer at noon 7^. 
23rd. Began at day-light to prepare for moving down 
the river, which we found very difficult to accomplish, 
owing to a mixing of the cattle belonging to our friends 
on the other side, with ours, and likewise to our having 
some additional cattle with which our people were not 
so well acquainted. The Corannas and Griquaas were 
ready first, and set off before us. Truly it was a novel 
sight. Were such a party to traverse the streets of 
London, I think the crowd such a sight would occasion 
would be inferior to none that ever assembled before. 
I counted twenty-one persons mounted on oxen, chiefly 
women in skin cloaks, most of them seated on the top 
of their stuff, high above the backs of their oxen. 
There were also three flocks of cattle, and one of 
goals and sheep belonging to the society, Griquaas, 
and Corannas, with various pedestrians. At ten, A.M. 
our waggons followed in the rear, guarded by our 
Hottentots carrying muskets. At eleven, A.M. we 
passed a Coranna kraal, who had come only on that 
morning to reside there. The women were all busy 
