VISIT TO SOUTH AFRICA. 
thus extorted some resting-time from their impatient masters, 
and recovered strength, tliey patiently dragged the waggons up 
the hill, though towards the summit the road was extremely rough 
and stony. After quitting the wood, we found ourselves on 
a barren heath, from which the prospect was very extensive, 
and we could trace our route nearly all the way from Uiten- 
hagen. Looking forward into the country, into which we were 
about to descend, our guides pointed out to us, at a vast dis- 
tance, the Boschberg, the proposed extent of our journey. 
The sun had set, and we were anxious to reach the valley, the 
wind being high and very cold, but our guides declared it impos- 
sible for the oxen to proceed a step farther. By blundering or 
ignorance, they also missed a place, where there was a sufficiency 
of water for their poor beasts; thus, after searching in vain, we were 
obliged to encamp on a dry spot, where very little fuel was to be 
procured. The moon shone bright, but the wind rose, and our 
tent was nearly blown down. 
12th. Glad to leave this uncomfortable night^s lodging, as soon 
as the day dawned, we descended into the valley. We were 
overtaken by ten dragoons, and pleased to be able to serve one 
of them, by taking his and his horses accoutrements into our wag- 
gon, the horse being sick, and obliged to be led. Among other 
singular plants on the Zuurberg, we noticed a species of the 
Wageboom, with a much broader leaf than that, which we had 
hitherto seen on the hills about the Kromm Revier. The outside 
was a dark green, the inside silver-grey, covered with a white down. 
At the bottom of the hill, we encamped near a farm destroj^ed bv 
the Caffres, and forsaken, where we found the bed of a brook, with 
only a few puddles of muddy water remaining in it. This, howe- 
ver, was all we could procure, both for ourselves and our thirsty 
oxen. 
Being Good-Friday, we called to mind the great event celebrat- 
ed on this day, in the Christian Church. We were in spirit with 
our congregations, met in so many other parts of the vioild, as it 
