FOURTH JOURNEY. I2g 
the force of the whid up very confiderable precipices. When i779- 
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the ilorin abated, we continued our journey to the Small > — « — • 
Nimiqua Land, where we arrived after a journey of five 
days, at the houfe of our companion, Engelbright, who 
informed us, that one of his horfes was devoured by a Lion, 
the fecond day after he parted from us. We remained here a 
few days in order to refrelli ourfelves, and to reft our cattle. 
On the fourth of November, we took leave of our friend, 
and directed our courfe towards the Bokke Veld, making fliort 
ftays, in fearch of plants. 
Mr. Van Renan and I left the waggon on the tenth, and 
in the evening arrived at the houfe of Mrs. Ryck. The next 
day we fent frefh oxen to our waggon, which arrived on the 
eleventli, in the evening. After a ftay of a few days in this 
place, we continued our journey to the north-eaft, towards 
the Boilimens Land. In the evening: we arrived at the houfe 
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of Jacobus Van Renan, where were about thirty of the Hot- 
tentots, who had made peace with the Dutch, were retained 
in their fervice, and proved more faithful fervants than thofe 
who had been brought up in fubjeftion to the Dutch. 
Li the morning we a little altered our direction, and tra- 
velled to the northward, and at night arrived at a brackifli 
fountain, fituate on a river, called by the Hottentots, Camdinie 
Rivier, where we remained all night on being informed that 
there were numbers of Antelopes, called Spring Bocks, in this 
neighbourhood, which we intended to have the amufement of 
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