CHAPTER XI. 
JOURNEY OVER THE KARRO. 
As soon as the oxen were yoked, we immediately began to enter the 
Pass. At about midway, we found a party with three waggons at 
outspan, which proved to be the same Frans Van der Merwe, of whom 
my two teams of oxen were bought. We halted a minute, to enquire 
if we might still expect to find water enough in the Karro for our 
cattle, and were rejoiced at hearing that this indispensable requisite 
was not quite dried up. He had been residing at his cattle-station 
in the Karro during the season of the rains, and was now removing, 
with all his family, to his dwelling in the Bokkeveld. 
The number of Karree-trees growing along the course of the 
rivulet, give a more pleasing appearance to the Pass. Though the 
road was generally level, this defile occupied us nearly an hour before 
we cleared the mountains. The Bokkeveld- Karro then opened upon 
us, and we beheld an immense plain, unbroken by hill or eminence, 
stretching before us in every direction, as far as the eye could dis- 
cern. (See the above Vignette). Along the northern and eastern 
horizon, is seen a range of distant blue mountains, probably those 
of the Roggeveld (Rye-land). 
Our road was in some parts sandy, and in others stony. We con- 
