TRAVELS IN AFRICA, 
crojjing the river — Hottentots eat locujls — Account of the quadrupeds that 
chiejiy inhabit this part of the country — Mr. Van Renan kills a Camelopar-^ 
dalis ; the greatcji part of which is carried off by the Lions — Some account 
of the fudden overflowing of the river ^ and the great heat of the climate — ^ 
Shoot an Hippopotamus : fojne account of the fnanner in which the natives 
catch thefe animals — Zebras Fountain — Difficulties in croffjig a fandy plain 
Send for afjijlance — Arrival at th Brack Fountain — Small Copper Berg 
Fountain — Fift the copper mines — Camis Berg, the fummer refidence of 
mofl of the boors in the Nimiqua Land — Proceed to Cafpers Kloaf and 
thence towards the Bokke Veld — Intention of croffng the country fro?n the 
Bokke Veld to Caffraria — Reajons for not being able to perform that journey — ■■ 
Vifit part of the Bojhfnens Land — Arrive at the Elephafits River — Continue 
our journey to the Heer Lodfeimenf — Picquet Berg — Arrive at the Berg 
River ; thence proceed to the Cape Town — Arrive zoth November ijj^, 
AFTER remaining four months at the Cape, I fet out, 
in May, upon a fecond journey into the country. In 
this excurfion I was accompanied by a young gentleman, who, 
though an inhabitant of the Cape Town, was polTeffed of 
feveral farms in the interior parts of the country. 
In the morning of the twenty-fecond of May, we left Ronda 
Bofchie, a houfe belonging to my companion's father, from 
whom I had always experienced the utmoft friendfliip during my 
refidence in this country. We proceeded through a large findy 
plain to the Tyger Berg, where we dined. The country had 
at this time a very bufy appearance, as the farmers were all 
engaged in plowing, and fowing their grain. In the after- 
noon we continued our journey to the fouth-eaft ; and that 
night refled at the houfe of a Mr. Cluta, near Stillen Bofch. 
On the twenty-third, we proceeded to the Erft Rivier, and 
