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where we intended to flay all nlg^lit. Our way lay through ^. ^778- 
c> J J O November. 
a low country of a clayey foil, called Karo. We faw much ^^^-^ 
game ; and the fervant of Mr. Van Renan, being an excellent 
markfman, fhot two Elks, both of which were much larger 
than an Englifh bullock : the flefli of this animal is palatable 
though dry. At night we returned to the Lion's Dance, 
where we found our waggon. 
Early, on the feventh, we parted with our friends, and di- 
reded our courfe fouth-weft, having the Bokke Lands Bergen 
on our left hand, and the Atlantic Ocean on our right, at the 
diflance of about thirty miles. We travelled the whole day 
and till midnight, when we found a fountain of brackifli water. 
We refted at the fide of this fountain the remaining part of 
the night. 
The next day my companion and myfelf left the waggon, 
and direded our courfe weft north-weft. In the afternoon we 
arrived at the Elephant's River, and found it fo deep that our 
horfes fwam about ten yards. We foon reached the oppofite 
fliore, where, at a little diftance, wa? the houfe of a Dutch- 
man who had lived many years on the banks of this river, 
and kept a fmall boat for tranfporting waggons, in time of 
neceftity. We ftayed here, waiting for our waggon, and dried 
our clothes. 
We were employed, during the foUovv^ing day, in tranfport- 
ing our baggage over the river. On the banks of it are many 
large trees of Mimofa and Tarchonanthus Camphoratus. The 
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