FIRST JOURNEY 
in the afternoon came to the Great River, where we dined 
under the fhelter of a Mimofa. After dinner we crolTed the 
river, and towards the evening came to a fecond, called Tfu- 
nice Cama by the Hottentots ; and by the Dutch, Gouds 
Rivier, or Gold River, which has a foutherly direction, and 
empties itfelf to the weft ward of Catharina Bay in the Indian 
ocean. This river is dangerous for ftrangers to crofs, from the 
number of large pools which formerly had been inhabited by 
the Hippopotamus Amphibius, though thefe animals have now 
deferted their ancient refidence, and are feldom met with in this 
place. We continued travelling in the night through a coun- 
try of which both of us were totally ignorant, till about one 
o'clock in the morning, when obferving no iigns of inhabitants, 
we agreed to reft till morning at the fide of a fmall brook, 
which we found to be Slang Rivier, or Snake River. In the 
courfe of this day we travelled about forty miles. 
On the thirty-firft, we direfted our courfe eafterly, through 
a barren country, which afforded lefs appearance of vegetation 
than any we had hitherto feen. In the afternoon we came to 
a fmall eftablifliment, fituated under the Atquas Kloaf, on a 
narrow brook, named the' Saffron River, where we refted all 
night ; and next day we received frefli oxen, and direded our 
vcourfe north north-eaft, towards the Elephants River. At 
noon we arrived at a place called Poverty, fituated on the 
fame river, where we refted during the heat of the day. In 
the afternoon we vCrolTed it at a place where it is about half a 
mile broad. The banks of this, as well as of mofl other rivers 
in this country, are covered with a fpecies of Mimofa, and 
