SOUTHERN AFRICA. 307 
pitch our tents near the falt-pans ; but we were difturbed the 
whole night by the roaring of Hons. 
Continuing our route to the eaftvvard, 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 hlgheft ridge that croffes 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 necelfary to return to the northward and to crofs the 
Zuure-berg. To the eaftward, no pafTage over them has yet 
been difcovered in any of the expeditions that, with different 
views, have been made through KafTer-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£l of no fmall regret to fo.me 
of the party to be denied a palTage over the mountains. It 
was found imprudent alfo to continue our route to the eaft- 
ward, a horde of Bosjefmans, commanded by one Zjwx, con- 
fifting of five hundred people, having ported themfelves near a 
point of the Bambos-berg. We were obliged, therefore, to 
turn off to the fouthward, diredly through the Tarka. 
In one of the mountains that terminates this divifion to the 
eaflward, we difcovered a cavern full of the drawings of differ- 
ent animals generally of the larger kind, fuch as elephants, rhi- 
nofcerofes, hippopotami, and, among the refl, one of the came- 
R R 2 lopardalie. 
