TRAVELS IN AFRICA 
day. Mr. Pinar appeared to be much lefs injured by his unfor- 
tunate expedition than the Hottentots ; their eyes were funk 
in their heads, and they appeared more hke dead than Hving 
men. 
We made an excurfion, on the nineteenth, along the fliore, 
where we found numbers of wild Geefe, Ducks, Flamingoes^. 
Pelicans, &c. The land forms a flat point, which extends 
from the mouth of the river, north- weft half weft : the Two 
Brothers, fouth-eaft by fouth, are diftant about twelve miles. 
The mouth is about half a mile in breadth ; but is eftclofed 
by a ridge of rocks which lie a mile from the fliore, in a di- 
re£tion eaft and weft, and which render it impoftible for fliips 
to enter the river. The land is extremely low and barren ; to 
the weft ward, fandy ; and to the eaft, rocky. In the evening 
our Hottentot arrived, whom we had never expeded to fee 
again. 
The next day I crofted the river, in company with Colonel 
Gordon, and left the boat in order to make an excurfton to 
the weftward. Here we obferved the print of human feet, 
which appeared to us to be frefti. Upon this we refolved to 
purfue the track, and on our way faw feveral fnares laid for 
the wild beafts. After travelling about five miles to the north- 
ward, we perceived fome of the natives on a fandy hillock, 
about one mile from us ; v/e made feveral ftgnals to them, but 
they feemed to be quite wild, and made their efcape. We 
continued to follow their path, which brought us to their habi- 
tation ; but we were ftill as unable to bring about any inter- 
