SECOND JOURNEY. 
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to another part of the river. When we arrived, all our Hot- September 
tentots were hunting the Hippopotamus, having no provifion ^ — 
in the waggon. They had hunted the whole day without fuc- 
cefs ; and one of them had been wounded by the animal ; but 
the flream being rapid, had driven him off to the oppofite 
fhore. We obferved feveral natives, to whom we made re- 
peated figns ; but they did not feem to underftand us. 
On the feventh, we agreed to return the way we came, 
having had nothing to eat for the two preceding days, except 
fome wild prickly cucumbers, which grew here in abundance. 
Before we took leave of this place, I alked Mr. Van Renan to 
accompany me to a high hill about a league to the eallward 
of us, which he readily agreed to. When arrived at the fum- 
mit, we faw a large herd of cattle about fix miles to the eafl- 
ward ; on which we immediately returned to the waggon with 
the glad tidings, and a Hottentot was difpatched to bring us a 
llieep or a bullock, whatever it fliould coft. Our melTenger 
returned in the evening with three flieep, and the Hottentots 
to whom they belonged, who flayed with us during the night. 
The river alTumes a wefterly direction in this part ; and I 
found it to be the fame that Captain Gordon had vifited the 
year before, and had named the Orange River, in honour of 
the Prince of Orange. On both fides of the river are large 
trees, peculiar to this country, fuch as Mimofa of different 
forts ; Salices, and a great variety of flirubby plants. The 
mountains have, upon the whole, a barren appearance, being 
in general naked rocks ; though they are in fome places 
adorned by a variety of fucculent plants ; and in particular 
