;2 TRAVELS IN AFRICA. 
Au^u'ft which generally prove fatal. At this place I added much to 
? — ' my coUedion, particularly fome plants of the fhrub kind, now 
in flower on the top of the Hentuni Mountain. This emi- 
nence is very lofty ; and, at the feafon when I vifited it, was 
covered with fnow, frozen into a folid body of ice. I found 
a difference of thirty degrees between the thermometer here 
and in the vale below. In the lhade it was down to twenty- 
fix. 
We proceeded, on the ninth, towards the Bokke Land, 
which is nearly weft by fouth, from the Hentum ; and, in 
two days, arrived at a place called the Tom, or Tower, which 
is a hill of a pyramidal figure, where v/e ftayed all night. 
On the eleventh, we paiTed the Baboons Hill ; the road 
was fo very bad, that it was with great difficulty we could 
keep the waggon, upon its wheels. Here I collefted many 
beautiful plants, which were quite new to me. This night 
we ftayed at a brackifh river ; and the following day were 
detained till noon, having mifled our oxen. Here I vilited a 
Hottentot Kraal, which was about a mile diftant ; and, as I 
propofed travelling over the Small Nimiqua Land, I hired one 
of the Hottentots, who fpoke Dutch, as an interpreter. In 
the afternoon we continued our journey as far as Thorn River, 
xvhere are many Lions, fo that we were obliged to obferve the 
precautions of tying our oxen, and making fires. 
On the twelfth, we defcended the Bokke Veld Berg, 
which was fteep, but not very high, and came to a farm be- 
