September.] THE OXEN TAKE FRIGHT. 
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gon, in which I sat, instead of following them, 
turned aside with violence, and stuck fast among 
some rocks. Our dogs soon afterwards caught 
two young springboks, and the Hottentots found 
six ostrich eggs. 
On the 11th we passed a conical hill, stand- 
ing in the middle of a plain, called Wonder 
Mountain, for what reason I could not learn. 
After halting a few hours at the Sea-cow River, 
we went forward amidst many droves of spring- 
boks and other game, which were feeding on low 
bushes, for not a blade of grass was to be 
seen. 
At sunset, we passed a boor's place, who, 
though he had sown a field of corn, expected to 
reap nothing, the whole being generally eaten up 
by the numerous flocks of springboks constantly 
surrounding him. 
A little beyond, at another boor's place, where 
we were on the eve of halting for the night, the 
oxen of the luggage-waggon took fright, and ran 
off furiously. The thundering noise made by the 
waggon passing over the stones, and the darkness 
of the night, alarmed the oxen of the two other 
waggons, who galloped after it. Poor Kleinfeld, 
being asleep, tumbled out of the luggage- waggon, 
happily not from the front, but from behind, 
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