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THE WIND-HEUVEL. 
22 July, 
tation. * Near the summit of the mountain, we halted a few minutes 
at a hut in which a colonist happened at this time to be residing, 
and where our caravan was strengthened by the addition of a small 
party of the Klaarwater Hottentots. 
The waggon which they had with them, was one that formerly 
belonged to Dr. Cowan's expedition, and had been taken as far as 
the place at which their last letters were written ; and not finding- 
occasion for all their four waggons, this was sent back to the Cape 
by one of the missionaries who had accompanied them thus far, and 
had been sold to these Hottentots. 
This object excited a mournful interest, and filled my mind with 
melancholy reflections on the untimely end of those who once rode in 
it, now the only vestige of them remaining. Fortunate would it have 
been for any of that party, had it been his lot to be the conductor of 
it back to the colony, instead of sending it under the care of others. 
From the highest point of our road over this mountain, there is 
a fine view of the hilly Roggevelcl Karro, and beyond it, in a blue 
distance, of the lofty Roggeveld Mountains, or cliffs, as they really are, 
with respect to the country beyond them. Their even summits 
appeared one long, unbroken, and horizontal line, trending a great 
distance eastward, at the same elevation, and forming the third step 
or rise in the surface of Southern Africa, in advancing from the Cape 
of Good Hope. The first step seems to be at the great western 
chain of mountains, and the second along the southern side of the 
Great Karro. The high level of the Roggeveld, may be inferred 
* The collection of this day consisted only of 
Eriocephaltis purpureus, B. Catal. 
Geog. 1281. Folia filiformia 
minuta. Floras spicati, sed sae- 
pius in ramulis terminales soli- 
tarii, purpureL 
Lichtensteinia undulata. Willd. 
Beob. ges. Berl. 1807- 
Sep)tas 
Sparaxis 
Selago 
Asparagus 
Parmelia. Vegetables of this order are 
of extremely rare occurrence in the 
more arid regions of the interior. 
An umbelliferous plant, probably a Seseli, was called by the Hottentots, Anys-tmrtel, 
(Anise-root) the root of which was said to be eatable : but it is entirely different from the 
Anys-wortel of Zwartland. 
