SECOND JOURNEY. 
47 
The following day we continued our route to the north- ^778. 
ward, through much the fame kind of barren foil we had paffed 
on the day preceding- Wherever we paffed, we obferved the 
frelh print of Lions and Tigers ; and early next morning Mr. 
Van Renan faw a Lion within fifty yards of him ; which we , 
afterwards went in purfuit of ; but the track brought us to a 
clump of thick thorny ihrubs, which prevented us from pro- 
ceeding farther. 
On the twenty-feventh, we vifited two of the boors who re- 
fide in the Karo during the time when the fnow lies upon the 
Rogge Veld Mountains. This pra£tice is not, however, gene- 
ral, feveral of them remain in their habitations, expofed to all 
the inclemencies of the weather. The principal caufe of the 
migrations from the m.ountains tX) the Karo, is a want of fire- 
wood, which is very fcarce on thefe heights. Thofe of them 
that remain, in general, employ their fervants, before the win- 
ter begins, in carrying wood from the bottom of the mountain, 
which is certainly a very laborious tafk. There are fome to 
whom thefe temporary removals are far from appearing a great 
evil. Indeed, feveral of the inhabitants of this diftrid are fo 
much in the habit of changing their abode, that rather than 
undergo the trouble of making a proper provifion for this 
dreary feafon, they would travel for many miles. As this de- 
fart part of the country is inhabited only during a fliort part 
of the year, very few houfes are to be found in it. Moft of 
the inhabitants live in huts fimilar to thofe of the Hottentots • 
fome dwell in the tent that covers their waggon ; and, even 
in this fituation, the boors have the appearance of being the 
