364 A JOURNEY IN 
The latter supposed to bury their Dead — Giraffe hunting — A targe 
Rhinosceros killed — Arrive at the Orange River, and skirt its Banks to 
the North-Westward — Pass several Kora Villages — Kok''s Kraal — E^xtra- 
ordinary Character and Adventures of one Stephanos, a Polish Greek — 
Expedition against a famous Robber of the Name of Africaaner — Extra- 
ordinary Flight of Locusts — Critical Situation of the two Secretaries — 
Pithing of Cattle — Decisive Experiments to prove the Fallacy of its being 
the most expeditious and least pamful Mode of slaughtering Cattle — Return 
of the Expedition to the Colony. 
" Having received from his Excellency Lieutenant-General 
" Dundas, acting Governor and Commander in Chief of the 
" castle, town, and settlement of the Cape of Good Hope, 
" our credentials and instructions, examined the invoice of 
" the several articles intended to be given in exchange for 
" cattle, and arranged the contents of our six waggons, we 
" this day," says Mr. Truter, " the first of October 1801, 
" commenced, under God's good providence, our long and 
" interesting journey." After a minute detail of every par- 
ticular circumstance that occurred and a relation of theordinary 
events of such a journey ; the names of the several farms and 
their occupiers where they halted for the night, or for obtam- 
ing refreshment or a change of draught oxen ; the little inter- 
ruptions and mortifications they met with, owing to the w^ant of 
punctuality in the boors in bringing their fresh relays of oxen, 
to the breaking of axle-trees, yokes, and traces ; the diffi- 
culty of ascending Roode Sand Kloof; the impractica- 
bility of passing the Witscnberg or Mostaert Hoek, which 
compelled them to take the circuitous route over the Hex 
River Kloof (in their progress through which, Mr. Tniter 
observes, they crossed the rapid stream of the same name 
