PHILIP FOUNTAIN. 
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thickest foliage, and forms a considerable stream, 
about ten yards wide,'^and a foot in depth. It is 
the principal source of a large river, known by 
some of the natives who travelled v\^ith me, and 
runs far to the eastward ; there can be little doubt 
that it empties itself into the Indian Ocean, on 
the shore of Mosambique. 
At sunrise, in the waggon, Therm. 46 
At noon, in ditto, ditto... 72 
We found abundance of water-cresses growing 
in the vicinity of the fountain. Munameets ex- 
pressed surprise at seeing a plateful of them 
placed on the tent-table to be eaten, none of 
the natives knowing they were used by man. 
Several of the Marootzee left us at Philip 
Fountain and went forward to Kurreechane, in 
order probably to inform the King of our ap- 
proach. It was reported that his mother had 
died on the preceding day. 
We left this cheering fountain at two p. m. and 
soon entered a pass between two beautiful hills 
decked with trees, appearing like centinels on 
each side. Our road was rendered crooked, by 
being obliged to make our way through a wood. 
At one place we had to descend from twenty to 
thirty feet upon a surface of rugged rock ; and a 
hundred yards farther we descended a second 
