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his Hottentots to his father's houfe, who returned to us with '779- 
' March. 
a fupply of frefh cattle. y.^'^ 
We proceeded weftward from this place, and on the firft 
of March, in the evening, arrived at the houfe of a Dutch- 
man, where we refted that night, and the next day paffed the 
Krome Rivier. 
In a few days we arrived at the houfe of one Veraira, a 
wealthy farmer, where we had the mortification to find our 
cattle in the fame condition as before, and thofe we had 
brought from the Cableows River ftill worfe than the others. 
Upon finding the country extremely dry, and fcarcely a 
plant to be feen, I left Mr. Van Renan with the waggon, and 
dire£led my courfe towards the Cape, where I arrived on the 
twenty-third of March, after a journev of three months- 
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