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ROCKS OF RECENT FORMATION. 
28 Oct. 
perhaps original, form. The Jackal is worn by the Bushmen, and 
every tribe of the Hottentot race ; but, by many individuals the Tail- 
piece is not considered as indispensable. In place of the Jackal, the 
Bichuana tribes, hereafter mentioned, adopt a different fashion, 
which will be described in a future part of this journal. Sandals, or 
Shoes, are used by all ; but the difficulty of always procuring the 
hide proper for them, obliges the greater part of these people to 
reserve them for occasional service, and only when necessity, from 
the ruggedness of the ground, requires. 
Many of the Klaarwater people are clothed in the mode above 
described ; but more than half of them imitate the dress of 
Europeans. 
The river, and its woody banks, attracted all my admiration ; 
and in so hot a day, the assurance of having an abundance of pure re- 
freshing water always within reach, mitigated, in idea, the fervid rays 
of the sun, smoothed the roughness of our path, and lessened the toil 
of our march. 
In crossing a small but deep ravine, the pole of my waggon got 
by accident between the legs of one of the after-oxen, and nearly 
occasioned an overturn ; but we came off with no other misfortune 
than the loss of a yoke, broken by the struggling of the ox. As we 
always carried with us several supernumerary yokes, this accident 
was soon repaired; but the number of these dry ravines which 
every where crossed our track, occasioned, to one or other of the 
waggons, continual mishaps and stoppages ; so that we did not 
advance at a faster rate than two miles in the hour. 
In the rainy season, the torrent rushing down these hollows in 
its way to the river, has laid bare the substratum of rock, and shown 
it to be a heterogeneous mass, of more recent formation than the 
surrounding mountains. It is composed of small fragments of other 
rocks, such as granite, porphyry, sandstone, limestone, and a few 
rounded pebbles ; all firmly conglutinated together by a cement appa- 
rently formed of pulverized limestone. The parts which have been 
long exposed to the weather are of a black hue. Rocks of this 
