JOURNEY I. 
often growing out of perpendicular rocks where no earth 
is to be feen. Among thefe the water fometimes falls in 
cafcades over rocks two hundred feet perpendicular, with 
awful nolle. I endured this day much fatigue in thefe 
feque ftered and unfrequented woods, with a mixture 
of honor and admiration. The greatefl part of the trees 
that compofe them are unknown to botanifts. Some I. 
found in flower ; others, which were not fo, I was obliged 
to- leave for the refearches of thole who may come after 
me in a more fortunate fealon. 
1 6 tn, I vifited a Hottentot Kraal: the men were all, 
at this time, attending their herds ; but the women and 
children were employed in building their huts; which 
are very low, of a circular figure, and made of Render 
poles, the ends of which are ftuck into the ground, fo as to 
form a number of arches eroding one another ; thefe they 
afterwards cover with mats made of reeds. They have 
a round, hole in the middle of the floor, in which they 
make the fire, and fit all round it upon the ground ; but 
have no chimney or hole to let out the fmoke. 
- 1 8th, We eroded the Breed Rivier, which is confider- 
able, and only padable in winter by a ferry ; but at this 
feafon we forded it at the place where the Rivier Zonder 
Eynde joins it. At night we arrived at Schwellendam, a 
place about 150 miles N.E. from the Cape Town, where 
we remained two days; but finding the feafon too faripent 
for making any conliderable colledtions, I returned back 
to the Cape by the fame road I came. It was on this 
N n 2 journey 
