SECOND JOURNEY, 
and elglity-four, by Governor Vander Stell, but found great 
fcarcity of wood and water. There is, at a little diftance, a 
brackilli fountain which is frequently dry in the fummer. In 
the evening we arrived at a fmall fountain, where we had 
hardly water enough to fuffice us and our cattle. We, how- 
ever, refolved to remain there all night, being informed that 
we were thirty miles diftant from the next water. 
We thence dire£led our courfe north. About ten, in the 
morning, we faw feveral natives approaching, armed with 
bows and arrows, whom we fuppofed to be bufli Hottentots, 
and therefore thought it prudent to load our guns. They foon 
overtook us, and afked me for fome tobacco, which I wil- 
lingly gave them. One, who fpoke Dutch, told me, that they 
had no cattle, and that they lived upon roots and gums ; and 
fometimes fealted on an Antelope, which they occafionally 
fhot with their poifoned arrows. Soon after one of the inha- 
bitants of the Nimiqua Land overtook us, and requeued I 
would accept of his company to the Great River. His nation 
being at war with the bufh Hottentots, he was rather afraid, as 
they frequently rob the Nimiquas of their cattle, and often 
kill the people. In the evening we came to a fmall fountain, 
where we ftayed all night, having travelled about thirty miles 
without meeting with a drop of water. 
The following morning we dire£led our courfe north by 
eaft, through a fandy plain ; and about funfet came to a brack- 
ifli fountain, where^we llayed all night. Next morning I made 
an excurfion to a high mountain, to the eailward, where I 
