2*72 ^ ROCKY PATHLESS COUNTRY. 24-, 25 Aug. 
Leaving on our left the usual track to the Sack river, we were 
advised by the Hottentots to take a more eastward circuit, through 
the Nieuwveld (New-land, or New-country), in expectation of meet- 
ing with better pasture. The waggons, during this day, were dragged 
over a most rocky, unfrequented, and nearly pathless country, where 
the wheels of our caravan imprinted a track that would be visible, 
perhaps, for several years. In one place, an ascent of between 
eight and ten hundred feet lay over rugged rocks and stones, that 
seemed, every minute, to threaten destruction to some of the crazy 
vehicles. 
We halted for the night in a rocky situation, near a small river, 
where the fine scarlet flowers of a new kind of Aloe decorated the 
barren rocks, and gave a certain gay cultivated look to a spot, which, 
without them, would have appeared a rude neglected waste. * Crabs, 
of nearly two inches in diameter, of an olive-green, variegated with 
shades of lemon-color, were common in the running water here, and 
are often to be met with in the rivers of the Roggeveld. 
^5th. An accident occurred which prevented our travelling 
this day, and had nearly cost a Hottentot the loss of his life, and 
* Among the plants found on the road 
Mesembryanthemum magnipunctatum.^. 
Mcsembryanthemum croceum 
Eriocephalus spinescens. Cat. Geog. 
14; 19. RamuU apicibus spinescen- 
tibus. Flores solitari, laterales. 
Eriocephalus decussatus. C. G. 1407. 
Foha brevissima, sub-fasciculata 
et quadrifariam decussata. Flores 
minuti, in singulo fasciculo soli- 
tarii. 
Euphorbia Mauritatiica 
Euphorbia tenax. B. 
Aloe clavifora. C. G. 14-25. 2. 
Acaulis. Folia elongata glauca, 
marginibus aculeatis. Flores dense 
spicati. Spica simplex. Corolla 
clavata, laciniis conniventibus. 
from the Karree river, and at this station, 
Crassula columnaris 
Crassula pt/ramidalis 
Pteronia, 4 sp. 
Lanipila 
Cotyledon, n. sp. 
Salsola, 2 sp. 
Hermannia 
Thesium 
Aster 
Ehrharta 
Heliophila 
Solarium 
Leysera 
Gnaphalium 
Eriocephalus 
Pelargonium. 
