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THE CARAVAN ASSEMBLED. 
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I5th. The oxen having become leaner from the scarcity of 
water and pasturage, we removed no further than to Seldery Fontein 
(Celery Spring), a distance of little more than five miles, over a level 
country thickly covered with small shrubs ; amongst which a thorny 
kind * was most abundant and troublesome. 
The latitude of Celery Spring was ascertained to be 32° 9' 23 '."j" 
1 6th. We moved six miles further, to Kdnna Kraal, on the 
Little Reed river, and so named by the Hottentots, from a shrub % 
which grows there ; and, on the next day, seven miles and a half, to 
the Karree river. 
Here we found waiting for us, the party of Hottentots under 
Berends, who were on their way home to Klaarwater, and whom we 
had expected to make part of our caravan through the wild and 
desert Bushman country. Our numbers now, with women and 
children, amounted to ninety-seven persons. They had with them 
eight waggons, and the usual proportion of oxen, besides sheep and 
horses. Most of them were armed with muskets, and clad, gene- 
rally, in jackets and trowsers, either of woollen cloth or of tanned 
sheep-leather, with shoes of raw hide. Many had cotton shirts and 
hats of Cape manufacture ; yet the kaross, a genuine Hottentot 
dress, made of sheep-skin prepared with the hair on, was pretty 
much used by both sexes. Their women and children constituted a 
third of the number. The younger of the latter were half naked ; 
but the women were decently clothed, some in gowns and aprons of 
printed calico or leather, neatly made up in the Dutch manner. All 
had their heads closely bound up with coloured cotton handker- 
chiefs. There were but very few who did not speak the Dutch 
* Mesembryanthemum spinosum. 
f 16th August, 1811, at Seldeiy Fontein, the observed altitude of the sun's centre, 
when on the meridian, was 43 51' 47". 
X Salsola aphylla. /Caw?za also signifies the antelope called i;^awc?. The Kanna-bosck 
(written Ganiia by the Dutch) may probably have been considered as the favourite food 
of the Kanna ; and in this sense the word Kannaland, the name of a part of the Cape 
colony, may with equal correctness be supposed to intend a country abounding either in the 
Eland, or in this shrub. 
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