330 ARRIVAL AT BEAUFORT. [1820. 
The next day the therm, at noon was 86, but 
a breeze arising we were able to proceed at one 
P.M. About sunset we crossed the Camdebo 
River, which is a branch of the Sunday, and 
halted on its banks. At eight we met together 
in the tent, when I read to them, in the Dutch 
language, a chapter of the Scriptures, and one 
of the Hottentots offered up a prayer. This con- 
tinued to be our practice during the remainder of 
the journey. They also sung a hymn in the 
Dutch language, both at the commencement and 
conclusion of the meeting. 
For sevesal days we had, on our right, the 
Camdebo Mountains, whose tops were generally 
inaccessible cliffs. To the left appeared an ex- 
tensive desert plain, without a house, or culti- 
vation of any kind ; but in the vicinity of the 
mountains we passed several farms, some of the 
proprietors of which were said to possess ten or 
twelve thousand sheep, and had a few acres of 
corn-fields in cultivation. We arrived at Beau- 
fort on the evening of October the 6th, and the 
next morning dispatched two Hottentots to Dass 
Fountain, to bring seven oxen we had left under 
the care of Mr. Smit when going up the country. 
I found Mr. Taylor at home, but Mr. Baird, the 
Landdrost, was absent on a journey to the Cape. 
On the Lord's-day morning Mr. T. preached to 
about forty persons, and in the afternoon held a 
