CHAPTER XIII. 
JOURNEY FROM THE BORDERS OF THE CAPE COLONY, THROUGH THE COUNTRY 
OF THE BUSHMEN, TO THE RIVER GARIEP. 
September ith. Bidding farewell to the Colony, we departed in 
the afternoon, and entered upon our journey through the country of 
the Bushmen. While the caravan was crossing the Sack river, which 
occupied some time, I made two sketches, as a memorial of a spot 
always interesting to my recollection, from being the place where, 
for the first time, I quitted the jurisdiction and protection of regular 
laws, and committed myself to the hostility, or the hospitality, of 
savage tribes. My notions of human nature were not so harsh as to 
forbid me expecting virtues among savages ; and I looked forward 
with pleasure and increasing eagerness to that part of my journey 
which was hereafter to follow. 
We did not advance this day more than ten miles into the 
country, but halted for the night in the plain at Kopjes Fontein, 
