August.] ARRIVAL AT THE CRADOCK. 
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We left the Great River at nine a.m., passing- 
over a sandy road, with, a row of low hills on our 
left. At noon we had a fine view of the Cradock 
River to the westward, near its junction with the 
Great River, or perhaps rather the Yellow River, 
for by the Griquas it is so named, till joined by 
the Cradock ; after this it is called by them and 
by others the Great River, to its mouth, which is 
about six or seven hundred miles below the 
junction of the Cradock. On my last journey I 
travelled along its banks as far as Namaqualand 
on the v/est coast of Africa, without finding the 
junction of another river, except in the rainy 
season, when many streams run into it from the 
south, and a few from the north. 
At one p. M. we reached the side of the Cra- 
dock, which indeed is a noble river, having as 
fine an appearance, and being as plentifully lined 
with trees on both sides, as after its junction 
with the Yellow River. 
At two p. M. we arrived at the kraal of Adam 
Kok, a Griqua captain, son to old Cornelius Kok, 
at Campbell. Upon expressing our surprise at 
the number of cattle which were feeding around 
his village, he told us, that when the Missionaries 
first came to the Griqua country, he had only 
sixty head of cattle ; but that now he had five 
hundred, though the Bushmen had at different 
