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pitch our tents near the falt-pans ; but we were dlfturbed the 
whole night by the roaring of lions. 
Continuing our route to the eaftward, on the tenth we en- 
tered the divifion of the Tarka, under the point of a lofty- 
mountain called the Bambos-berg, which alfo forms a part of 
the higheft ridge that crofles the continent near the fouthern 
angle of Africa. The Bambos-berg is a double range, and is 
completely impaffable either with waggons or on horfeback. 
In order to have got beyond them with horfes, it would have 
been neceflary to return to the northward and to crofs the 
Zuure-berg. To the eaftward, no paflage over them has yet 
been difcovered in any of the expeditions that, with different 
views, have been made through KafFer-land. The country, 
therefore, behind the Bambos-berg, at the feet of which the 
Orange river flows, may be confidered as very little known, 
and on that account it was a fubje£t of no fmall regret to fome 
of the party to be denied a paflage over the mountains. It 
was found imprudent alfo to continue our route to the eaft- 
ward, a horde of Bosjefmans, commanded by one Lynx^ con- 
fifting of five hundred people, having pofted themfelves near a 
point of the Bambos-berg. We were obliged, therefore, to 
turn oflT to the fouthward, diredly through the Tarka. 
In one of the mountains that terminates this divifion to the 
eaftward, we difcovered a cavern full of the drawings of differ- 
ent animals generally of the larger kind, inch as elephants, rhi- 
nofcerofes, hippopotami, and, among the reft, one of the came- 
R R 2 lopardalis. 
