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partridges, were very plentiful, and none, except the fecond, 
difficult to procure. Moft of the antelope tribe may be neareft 
approached on the plains, about one or two o'clock, when the 
heat of the fun is greateft, either from their being then in a 
ftate of languor, or from their eyes being dazzled by the ftrong 
light, which renders them incapable of judging of diftances. 
The thermometer flood at 88° in the fhade, about the middle 
of the day. For eight or ten days paft its greateft height had 
been 84^ The weather almoft conftantly calm, with a cloud- 
lefs fky. 
The following day, after ten hours travelling diredly fouth, 
over a level country, brought us to the higheft ridge of moun- 
tains that run acrofs the fouthern angle of Africa. It might be 
confidered as a continuation of the Compafs-berg before no- 
ticed, though there are feveral interruptions in the interjacent 
chain. At this part it had the name of Zuure-berg, or the 
Sour Mountain. The waters that iffue from its fides run in 
oppofite diredlions. Thofe that take a northerly courfe fall 
into the Orange river ; and the united ftreamlets, flowing to 
the fouthward, become at length the Great Fifh river which 
divides the colony from the KafFer country. 
Early on the morning of the feventh, in confequence of 
one of the party having afferted that fome years ago he had 
met with the drawing of an unicorn in a kloof of the Zuure- 
berg, we*fet out upon an excurfion acrofs this mountain. 
Paintings we found, in feveral places, of a variety of animals, 
but none which bore the leaft refemblance to a quadruped with 
a fingle 
