TRAVELS IN AFRICA. 
in fearch of them, v/ho returned at midnight. This day we 
palTed dilligreeably, being expofed to the fcorching heat of the 
fun, and entirely deftitute of water. 
On the next, we agreed that it would be befl: to return to 
the river for water, and leave the waggon in its prefent fitua- 
tion. Mr. Van Renan being fick, remained to take charge of 
the baggage, which required fome guard from the number of 
bufli Hottentots who infefted diis part of the country. We 
then dire6ted our courfe towards the river, and took with us 
an empty cafk and a cann, which we had by the waggon. We 
found the river to be diihmt from us about eight niiles in a 
a dived: line. We faw, on our arrival, the remainder of two 
Hippopotami, which we had fliot fome days before, thrown 
out of the river. After rcfreftiing ourfelves, we filled our 
calk and cann, which Jacobus Ryke and myfelf carried, leaving 
our Hottentots to bring the cattle to the waggon. The heat 
of the fun, and the fotiguing journey we had over the land, 
obliged us to expend great part of the water before we arrived 
at the waggon, which was at fix in the evening. As foon as 
our oxen arrived, we made another attempt to proceed ; but 
after travelling about ten miles farther, our cattle appeared in 
the fame condition as before. Mr. Van Renan and Jacobus 
Ryke therefore agreed to go on to the houfe of one Vander 
Hever, which was about fifty miles to the fouthward of this 
place. They faddled their horfes early, the twenty-eighth, 
and left us in this difagreeable fituation, without w^ater or fire. 
I fent a Hottentot to a rock, about ten miles diftance to the 
fouih-eafl:, where there was a little water. In the afternoon, 
