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TRAVELS IN AFRICA. 
oaJbcV Hore we met with a gentleman who had been 
^ at Zwellendam, and was on his return to the Cape. He in- 
formed us, that the day before he had paffed a place where 
they killed a large lion, and warned us to be on our guard, 
as niore of thofe fierce animals were ftill lurkine about the 
fame place : for lions are found between this place and the 
Cape, which is diftant about one hundred Englifli miles. After 
parung with our friend, we crolfed the Bott Rivier, and about 
eight in the evening came to the Swart Berg, or Bkckhill, 
where there is a warm bath. The company have ereQ:ed a 
lioufe for the reception of thofe who chufe to ufe the bath ; 
but travellers generally refide at a farm-houfe, which is little 
more than a mile diftant. The hill, whence the fpring iffues, 
is compofed of a fpecies of granite, with much iron. The bath, 
ufed by the Europeans, is in temperature an hundred and tliirty- 
three degrees by Farenheit's thermometer ; but may be reduced 
to any degree of heat by a ftream of cold water, which mns 
clofe by the place : at a little diftance from this there is ano- 
ther for flaves and Hottentots, the heat of which is one hundred 
and fifteen degrees. We found feveral people here from the 
Cape, ufing the water of the bath, which they believe to be 
a fpecific in all cafes. The country about it is very pleafant ; 
and there is excellent paflure for cattle. This diilrid abounds 
in game ; and particularly in that fpecies of antelope called by 
the Dutch, Bonta Bock*. Partridges are alfo very numerous 
here. From this place we dire6:ed our courfe eaftward, leav- 
ing the river Zondereynds Berg on our left hand, paffing 
* " The Buntebok, fomewhat lefs, but more corpulent in proportion than the Hartbeeft, 
is the Antilope Scripta of Pallas^ and the Guib of BufFon." Sparman, 2d edit. vol. I. p. 130. 
