April.] 
MERIBOHWHEY. 
141 
At five p. M. we saw the mountains of Mala- 
peetzee about forty miles to the south. At six 
p. M. we halted at a thicket of trees called Mou- 
tuatzepe, from a river said to lie to the eastward, 
which signifies Springbok leg. Although there was 
no water, we thought it best to remain on this 
spot during the night, travelling in the dark being 
dangerous, from pits, lions, projecting limbs of 
trees likely to carry away the roof of the wag- 
gon, and from high ants' nests as hard as a rock, 
which would probably overturn it. 
The sheep had got a strange habit of rushing 
suddenly from the waggons the instant they 
halted, notwithstanding every precaution used 
by the Hottentots and Matchappees, and would 
run a mile before any one could overtake them. 
On being brought back they would immediately 
rush forward in another direction in spite of every 
exertion, made by at least a dozen men. They 
were at length seized one after another during an 
hour's struggle, and made iast, as well as the 
oxen, to the waggons. 
Being surrounded by plenty of fire-wood, from 
the decayed trees of other times, we soon had 
three large fires ; a venerable mimosa, the trunk 
of which might be two yards in circumference, 
protected us from a cool east wind. Having 
plenty of flesh, the Matchappees were in such 
