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CHAPTER XL 
Large aloes. Soete Kloof. Character of the country about the 
Chamtoos Revier, Narrow glens. Remarkable caverns. Cham,' 
foos Revier. Klein Revier. Descent into the vale of the Louri 
Revier. Wild beasts heard in the woods. Old PaerVs account of 
Gnadenthal. Desire of the Hottentots to hear the gospel. The 
Galgenbosch. Hospitable reception at Klaarefonteyn and Kaffre 
Kraal. Van Staade's Revier. Thickets about the Zwartzkop 
Revier. Arrival at Uitenhagen. 
E could not set olF till half past eleven, when we saw a coun- 
try belbre us, apparently level, but full of dells and gullies. The 
<rreat variety of bushes and flowering shrubs, on all sides, attracted 
our attention. Large aloes are interspersed among the bushes, and, 
with their broad leaves, form a striking contrast to the many small- 
leaved evergreens which surround them. Some of them were in 
full bloom, towering above the thicket, and one, more perfect than 
the rest, was brought into the waggon. The flower consisted of 
seven branches, one in the centre, and six surrounding it at regular 
distances. The centre branch was a foot and a half long, the rest 
about thirteen inches, all thickly covered with a succession of long, 
bell-shaped flowers, each orange-coloured at the stem, and passing 
into bright vermillion towards the top. The brilliant appearance 
of this huge flower, or mass of flowers, disposed hke a chandelier, 
and mounted on a stem six feet in height, with a capital of massive 
leaves spreading above three feet in diameter, is beyond conception 
grand. The bountiful Creator has been pleased to clothe this 
country, unproductive as it generally is in means of subsistence 
for man and beast, with an astonishing profusion of vegetable 
beauty. Hardly a spot exists, upon which some curious and beau- 
