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TRAVELS IN AFRICA. 
July.' ^^tisfaa;ion of meeting Colonel Gordon, who had arrived there 
^■^"^ — ' only a few hours before us. 
On the banks of this river our caravan made a fhort ftay, of 
which I was glad to take advantage in order to vifit and infpe(9: 
the flope of the Camis Berg, which is adorned with a great 
variety of evergreen Ihrubs ; but as this was the winter feafon 
I found very few in flower. 
When properly refted, we determined on profecuting our 
journey to the northward, having the Camis Berg on our right 
hand ; and in the evening, of the twenty-fifth, arrived at a 
Hottentot village, which confifted of eighteen huts, where we 
pall'ed the night, and next day continued our courfe northward. 
At noon we met a peafant who had come from the Great 
River, and was travelling towards the Cape, accompanied by 
a deferter, who had been feven years abfent, and had travelled 
over a great part of the country. This poor fellow was a na- 
tive of Sweden, and made many fenfible refleftions upon his 
misfortunes in Africa. This evening we arrived at the houfe 
of one Hermannias Engelbright, where we flayed feveral days, 
and fupplied ourfelves with neceffaries foi our intended journey 
along the fhore of the Atlantic Ocean, as this was the lafi: 
houfe we were likely to meet with in our way. It is fituate 
on a branch of the Camis Berg ; and, according to Colonel 
Gordon's obfervation of the barometer, we found it to be two 
tlioufand and eighty feet high, and in latitude thirty degrees. 
We were ftrenuoufly advifed by the natives not to proceed 
farther. They informed us that we had to pafs an uninha- 
