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I could take : It will hereafter appear, whether, * 
even in this, my defires were founded on pof- 
fibilities. 
Conformably to this provlfional plan, I told 
Swanepoel to wait for me on the Orange-River 
four or five months. When this term was 
expired, I allowed him^ if he could procure any 
oxen, to return to mount Namero, and wait for 
me at Van der Wefthuyfen's fome time longer : 
after which he was to return to the Cape. I 
delivered to him my notes, with inftrudions 
to tranfmit them to my family, if he heard no 
more of me. Finally, after having given him 
two letters, one for Gordon, the other for Ser- 
rurier, and confented to his recalling Adam, I 
embarked on the raft, and joined my caravan. 
We were at that period of the year when 
the days are longeft and hotteft ; and not one 
paffed w^ithout a ftorm, though we experienced 
only its inconveniences v/ithout its benefits. 
The clouds paffed on towards the lofty moun- 
tains at a diftance, and feldom let a few drops 
fall on us. Every w^here the drought was in 
general the fame. 
This flight fprlnkling, however, fufficed in 
fome places to make the Bofhmen's grafs ger- 
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