FOURTH JOURNEY. 12: 
were numbers of the Camelopardalis in this neip;hbourhoocI, ^^779- 
... October. 
one of which we were very delirous of Ihooting, as it is a bealt 
fo Httle known to Europeans, that even its exigence has been 
doubted. 
Towards the evening I made an excurfion to a hill which 
was at a little diftance from us. When I gained the fummit 
I faw feveral of the natives near a wood of Mimofa, to whom 
I immediately endeavoured to approach. On my arrival I 
found they were eating the gum of the trees, on which indeed 
a great part of thefe people fublift. They were dreffed exactly 
as the inhabitants of the Small Nimiqua Land ; fome in the 
ikins of Jackals, and others in the fkins of Marmottes, fewed 
together ; thefe animals, being very numerous in this part of 
the country. Their habitation was about three miles from 
the fountain, which I vifited in the evening ; it confifled 
of fix huts. Their fheep are very dilferent from thofe near 
the Cape ; thefe having much longer tails, and being covered 
with hair inftead of wool, which at a diilance gives them 
more the appearance of dogs than of flieep. 
On the feventeenth we dire6ied our courfe north-eaft, to a 
fmall fountain of water ; and took with us fome of the natives 
who knew the country. On our arrival we were obliged to 
dig pits in the fand before we could come at the water. This 
day we made an excurfion through the country, which is level 
and high. Here we had an extenfive view to the fouthward 
of the Orange River ; and to the northward of a large plain, 
bounded at about the diftance of four days journey, by a range 
