SECOND JOURNEY. 
ney before us. About ten in the morning, we overtook our 
baggage, and were informed by the driver, that two Lions 
had palTed about an hour before. This part of the country 
abounds with beafts of prey, which renders traveUing ex- 
tremely dangerous. Tlie ground is covered with fhrubs about 
four feet high, called by the natives Guerrie, a fpecies of 
Rovena, which affords a covert fufficiently fliady to conceal 
Lions, Tigers, and the variety of animals which fport, during 
the day, in the more uninhabited parts, and at night commit 
depredations on the adjacent farms. The foil of this country is 
a loofe mouldy clay, fo little favourable to fertility, that though 
this was the beft feafon, there was fcarcely a blade of grafs to 
be feen. I found many fucculent plants in flower ; and alfo 
a fpecies of the Geranium Spinofum, which I had never feen 
before^ 
After a very hard day's journey, we arrived on the thir- 
teenth at a ftream of water, where we refted the remaining 
part of the night. We had much rain, with loud claps of 
thunder. The thermometer, at eight in the evening, was at 
forty-feven degrees. 
The next morning, finding a Hottentot Kraal about two 
miles off, I hired one of the inhabitants as a guide ; for the 
whole of our party were entirely unacquainted with this part 
of the country. My companion, Mr. Van Renan, and myfelf, 
left the waggon, and purfued a different direction, in order to 
fee as much of the country as poffible, and to coUeft plants. 
About four in the afternoon, we thought it was time to look 
