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TRAVELS IN 
" myl'elf unfit for my fituation and unworthy the character of 
" a human being." 
The firft day's march beyond the Sweet Milk'js Valley was 
acrofs a tame flat country, the road winding along the right 
bank of the Endlefs River j a name whofe fallacy was detected' 
by crofling it, on the next day's journey, juft where it forms 
a confluence with, and of courfe ends in, the Broad River. 
The latter, in the winter months, is a vail volume of water 
fufficient to float a fliip of the line, but, in fummer, not more 
than ankle deep. The diftance from this river to Zwellendam,, 
the feat of the Landroftand capital of the diftridfo called, is only 
about nine miles, over a country that is capable of an extenfive 
cultivation, but which is fuffered to remain almofl: entirely an 
unprodudive defart. 
As we knew this to be the only village that would occur in 
the courfe of our long journey, we thought it prudent to halt 
a day, in order to refrefli the horfes, have their flioes removed 
or renewed, and the faddles repaired j after which we continued' 
our march, for three eafy days, to a tolerable good farm-houfe 
called the Hagel Kraal, fituated at the foot of the Att aquas Kloof* 
The country we had palTed was little calculated to excite any, 
degree of interefl: ; the dwellings, as ufual, were thinly fcattered ; 
the land under no regular fyftem of tillage, exhibiting a barren 
wafte, without a fingle tree, or even a flirub, that by its fize 
or beauty would arreft the attention of the traveller j yet the 
foil of the greater part of the country appeared to be fuperior 
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