SECONDJOURNEY. 5J 
longing to Mr. Van Renan. In this journey from the Han- ^7^^^ 
turn, we fhortened our diftance from the Cape about fifty ^ — 
miles. 
The following day we proceeded to the northern extremity 
of the mountain, which is quite level on this fide, and almoft 
perpendicular for more than two thoufand feet. The foil is of 
a white fandy mold, intermixed with large fragments of a fort 
of free-ftone. This part of the country produces very little 
corn : the pafture is efteemed good for cattle ; but, in the dry 
feafon, they are much diftreffed for want of water. The peo- 
ple here behaved with the utmoft hofpitality ; and one of 
them, Jacobus Ryke, accompanied me to the Great River. 
On the eighteenth, we accompanied our waggon in its de- 
fcent down the mountain, which was really fleep and dreadful. 
About ten in the morning we got into a low level country, 
covered with fucculent plants ; and the Geranium Spinofum in 
great abundance. This day we fhot at feveral of a fpecies of 
Antelope, with long fliarp ftrait horns, called Gems Bock,* 
and killed two. Thefe animals are among the largeft of the 
* " It is defcrlbed with ftrait flender horns, near three feet long, annulated above half of 
their length : the reft fmooth. Space between horn and horn at the points fourteen inches. 
At their bafe is a black fpot ; in the middle of the face another ; a third falls from each eye to 
the throat, united to that in the face by a lateral band of the fame colour : the nofe and reft of 
the face white. From the hind-part of the head, along the neck and top of the back, runs a 
narrow duficy line of hair?, longer than the reft, and ftanJing above them, dilating towards the 
rump. Sides of a light reddifli afta-colour ; the lower part bounded by a broad longitudinal 
dufky band, reaching to the breaft. 
Belly, rump, and legs white ; each leg marked below the knees with a dufky mark. Tail 
covered with long black hairs j from the rump to the end of the hairs, two feet fix inches long. 
The 
