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470 JOURNEY IN THE COLONY. 
All the cups and saucers we brought from the Cape 
were broken; we had only half a cup left, which we 
used at breakfast, along with a wooden bowl, a horn, 
and a tin tumbler. 
13th. Left the Great Fountain at four P.M. and 
by great exertion, travelling through deep heavy sand, 
the waggons reached Vanwik's Place at nine P.M. 
As usual I walked on foot the whole stage. I was 
much gratified, while day light continued, by viewing 
the various forms of the Cedar Mountain, which stood 
about fifteen miles to the S.E. The front of it was 
seen to the extent of about thirty miles ; how much 
farther it extended beyond what I saw, I could not 
learn ; indeed, though Vanwick's family is large, and 
though two other boors were with him at supper, and 
a schoolmaster, yet there was only one person present 
who knew the name of that remarkable mountain ; she 
was the boor's wife's mother, an aged matron. But a 
mountain to them appears hardly worth noticing, the 
cattle are the objects that engross their attention. 
Here we heard that the French were driven out of 
Holland, and as a proof of its truth, it was stated, that 
fifty Dutchmen had come in an English ship to the 
Cape on their way to Batavia. The proof destroyed 
the credibility of the news. We heard also of peace 
with America, and that Buonaparte had gained so 
great a victory over the Russians, that they were 
obliged to burn the bodies of the dead. All which 
news we found afterwards to be false, however it was 
