412 A JOURNEY IN 
ranean and the Cape of Good Hope, a tract of country 
embracing both the torrid and the temperate climatesv 
On the 14th the party struck off to the north-westward, 
travelhng over a country tolerably well clothed with grass and 
frutescent plants, and abounding with quachas, pallas, harte- 
beests, and a great number of wild buffalos ; and in the even- 
ing they arrived at a village of Booshtianas, consisting of 
about forty houses, situated upon the banks of the Kour- 
manna river, wliich as far as the e3^e could reach were beauti- 
fully skirted with large trees, the most remarkable and the 
most abundant of which was the mimosa of the camelopar- 
dalis. The following day they fell in with the missionary 
Edwards Avho, with his wife and family accompanied by his 
half-cast companion and assistant Jan Kok and a few Hot- 
tentot attendants, were rambhng about the country, ap- 
parently without any determinate object. One of the Hot- 
tentots was still smarting under the recent wounds received 
from a lion, which he had the misfortune to encounter, and 
from, whose voracious fangs his escape was little less than 
miraculous. Ha.\ing obseiTed the fresh tr<ices of a lion's paws 
leading into the kraal where his master's sheep were pent up 
by night, the Hottentot had placed what the Dutch call a 
&tell-roer or trap-gun in the passage leading into* the kraal, 
with a view to destroy this nightly despoiier. The following 
morning,, on going to the spot, he found the gun discharged 
and, from the quantity of blood sprinkled on the ground, 
concluded that the contents must have been lodged in the 
body of the animal. Follov/ing the traces of blood on the 
