t66 A JOURNEY IN 
for the night near the Brakke fontei?i, where they presently 
had the great satisfaction to perceive, at some distance, a 
party of boors and Hottentots and cattle hastening to ^vards 
them over the plain. Their joy, however, was of short dura- 
tion, and followed by vexation and disappointment ; for, on 
examining the oxen, the greater part were found to be very 
young, totally unaccustomed to the yoke, and not a single 
good team could be selected from the whole drove. 
Determined, notwithstanding this grievous disappointment, 
to prosecute the journey they had undertaken, and being 
now advanced beyond the limits of the colony, it was deemed 
expedient, in the first place, to muster the party, to ascer- 
tain the strength of the expedition, and to prescribe certain 
regulations for their conduct, which were rigidl}^ to be ad- 
hered to during the -journey before them, whose distance and 
duration were equally uncertain. 
The account of the whole expedition was found to stand 
as follows : 
Mr. Truter, 
Mr. Somerville, 
Mr. Daniell, secretary and draughtsman. 
Mr. Borcherds, assi stant secretary. 
Mr. Scholtz, superintendant of the waggons. 
iSeven Dutch Boors, inhabitants of the Roggeveld. 
Making in the whole twelve Christians. 
Commissioners. 
