346 TRAVELS IN 
though none of the people with me could teftlfy to have feen 
any other fpecies of that genus frequenting the water, except 
Iguanas, from fix to ten feet in length. In the Nile only the 
crocodile is found, in fo high a latitude as 31° or 32°; but the 
7'richecus^ or Lamantin, frequents both coafts of Africa, from the 
Mediterranean to the Cape point, fometimes, though very rarely, 
entering the mouths of the rivers. 
The Kayman's river feparates the divifion of Plettenberg'^s 
bay from the Autiniequas land, a traft of country which the 
Dutch government kept exclufively for its own ufe, both on 
account of the grand forefts that were here eafily acceffible, and 
the excellent pafturage it afforded for their cattle at all feafons 
of the year. The mountains here being near the fea, attract 
the vapors, and caufe a greater quantity of rain to fall than 
in any other part of the colony. This divifion is terminated 
to the weft ward by the great Brakke river, which rifes in 
the forefts above-mentioned, and, running direitly fouth, dif- 
charges itfelf into Mufcle bay. 
Mufcle bay, lik^e all the others on this coaft of the colony, is 
open to the fouth-eaft, but it is fafer and better for fliipping than 
either Zwart kops, or Plettenberg's bay. The weftern point, 
called Cape Saint Blaize, is in latitude 34° 10' fouth, longitude 
22° 18' eaft, and diftance from the Cape about 240 Englifti 
miles. Variation of the compafs was 27° 54' weft, and time of 
high water at full and change about three o'clock. When the 
winds blow from fouth fouth-weft, wefterly, and round to eaft- 
north-eaft, and not too violently, the bay affords fecure and eafy 
anchorage 
