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FOURTH JOURNEY. 
Rie Beck's Cajlle — Verhren Valley — Lofe our way — joined by Colonel Gordon 
—Separate again — Depredatio?is by Lions — Harfebeeji Rivier — Joined 
again by Colonel Gordon — Arrive at the laji hoiife to the northward^ along 
the Atlantic Ocean — Fear of the natives to accompany us — Dreary dejarts—' 
Afjii5iing fcarcity of wafer — Lofe Mr. Pinar^ Colonel Gordon's companion 
— OJiricB's neji — Orange River — Beautiful plants — Meet with Mr, Pi?iar : 
dijirefsful Jituation of that gentleman^ and the Hottentots who accompanied 
bifn — Wild Men : unable to form any intercourfe with them : defcription of 
their huts — Convcrfe at length with the natives — T^he country very thinly 
inhabited — Government and manners of thefe favages — Plant ufed by the 
Hottentots to produce fre — Herd of Zebras — Horned Snake — Part with 
Colonel Gordon — Copper Berg — Defcription of the woods on Ora?ige River ^ 
afid the animals found there — Lions River — Ma7mcrs of the people in this 
part of Africa — Curious fpecies of Sheep — Obfervations on the African 
mountains — Camelopardalis — Small Nimiqua Land — Camdinie Rivier — 
Hunting the Antelope — Plant made ufe of for poifoning Hye?ias. 
ON the eighteenth of June, feventeen hundred and feventy- 
nine, I again departed from the Cape Town, in company 
with Mr. SebaiVian Van Renan. We direded our courfe to 
Ronde Bofch, his father's houfe, where we were detained three 
days by the inclemency of the weather. 
Upon leaving this place, we proceeded north, towards the 
Groena Kloaf, a country of which the greateft part belongs to 
the Dutch Company. After palling a heavy fand, we arrived 
