10 
JOURNEY FROM 
[1820. 
the heat is so great during the day, that they eat 
nothing until the evening, except water-melons, 
which grow in great abundance in their garden. 
From her I learnt that the Buffalo River runs 
through a kloof or opening across the Elephant 
range of mountains, and joins the Elephant River, 
and that the fountains all over the land are small. 
When I remarked, that, from her sequestered 
situation, she could not differ with her neigh- 
bours ; she replied very gravely, it was true, and 
very convenient to have no neighbours, for when 
cattle went into their garden, or corn-fields, they 
were sure it was only their own. She also in- 
formed me that there was no game near their resi- 
dence, except a few antelopes and zebras ; and 
that they had no snow, but saw it in winter on the 
tops of the distant mountains. We gave Dutch 
Tracts to her and to the Sea-cow-river boors. 
The hawker, whom we followed as our guide in 
the Karroo, told us, that as the next water we 
should come to was fifteen hours distant, or nearly 
fifty miles, he should set off at four p.m. ; of course 
we were obliged to depart at the same time. 
There being good starlight, we proceeded the 
whole night without halting. In the morning, 
the rising sun discovered one of the finest groups 
of mountains I had seen in Africa. It consisted 
of four rows running parallel to each other from 
N. W. to S. E. the nearest of which were low, but 
