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TRAVELS IN AFRICA. 
a3 ^^^^ ^'^^^^ every day. At noon we obferved we were in lat- 
— ' titude twenty-nine degrees, five minutes ; we then left the 
waggons, and directed our courfe along the fliore, which was 
much elevated. In the higheft rocks we found feveral petri- 
fadions of fliells, fome of which were about an hundred and 
fifty feet above the furface of the fea. 
Colonel Gordon's cattle began to drop down in the waggon, 
having had neither grafs nor water for two days ; but my 
waggoners kept on their journey, and unknown to me left 
the others behind. At nine in the evening we overtook my 
waggon, and found our people had been confulting whether or 
not they Ihould return, as they had not the lead profpedl of 
finding water. They fuppofed that Colonel Gordon's compa- 
nion had loft his wav, and were in g^reat doubt whether we 
fhould ever fee or hear of him more. About ten, one of the 
Hottentots arrived, who had left the waggon in company with 
him, but parted the firft day. He brought the glad tidings, 
that he had found a fountain of excellent water about fix miles 
to the northward, and brought a little with him in a'calabafii. 
This animated us greatly, and next morning Colonel Gordon 
and Jacobus Van Renan returned to his waggon, while we 
direc^jed our courfe to the fountain, which we reached about 
nine, and the others arrived at noon. This place not only 
afforded us good water, but excellent grafs for our cattle, and 
'variety of fucculent plants, fuch as Geraniums, Stapelias and 
Mezembryanthemums. This fountain is fituate between the 
two precipices, which were much decayed and worn. 
