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stamping with their feet, beating with their arms, 
scolding with vehemence, and bursting into fits 
of laughter. 
At six p. M. we took leave of our friendly 
Bushmen, and travelled over a plain for nine 
hours, when at three o'clock in the morning we 
came to a row of small hills, and halted with 
the hope of finding water at daybreak. On un- 
yoking the waggons, the oxen and dogs made 
towards some reeds hard by; when the dogs re- 
turned I examined their legs, and was glad to find 
them wet, a sure sign that they had found water. 
Several of the people bathed in the morning, 
which was very gratifying, while the therm, 
stood at 94. 
At six P.M. we again went forward. The 
splendor of the heavens at sunset seemed to ex- 
ceed any thing of the kind I had remembered to 
have seen on land. Our guides having heard 
that the Griquas had chosen a new way to the 
ford over the Great River, which turned to the 
right of the road, we looked out for it. At ten p.m. 
we observed the marks of some waggon-wheels 
which had turned off to the right. After halting 
and tracing them to a little distance, it was con- 
cluded that they did not lead to the ford, but to 
a salt lake. An hour afterwards we came to 
another path, turning off also to the right or N. E., 
