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We found it to be a fpecies of amaryllis , and, by the; 
leaves growing in a fan fhape, we called it amaryllis 
dijlicha. 
27th, From Saldana Bay we journeyed to Witte Klip 
(White ClifF) being a white granite ltone of an enor- 
mous fize; from the top of which we had a charming 
view of the lea coafl from St. Helena Bay to the Gape of 
Good Hope. The whole country affords a fine field for 
botany, being enamelled with the greateft number of 
Bowers I ever law, of exquilite beauty and fragrance. 
Here we faw numbers of wild dogs, and fome of them fo 
near that 1 could difcern them to be about the fize of a 
large fox-hound. They go in large packs, and do great 
damage to the cattle. They alfo deifroy the antelopes 
wherever they go, by hunting them down in the fame 
manner as our hounds do a flag. 
30th, To St. Helena Bay, where the Berg Rivier dif- 
charges itfelf, which is here very deep, and bordered on 
each fide by extenfive marfhes that are impaffable, and 
overgrown with very high reeds. Thofe reeds are plen- 
tifully flocked with birds of various forts, which build 
their nefts upon fuch of them as hang over the water. 
There is one bird, in particular, which has a wonderful 
effefl among the green reeds; its body being a bright 
crimfon, with black and grey wings ; and by the brightnefs 
of their colours, when fitting among the reeds, they look 
like fo many fcarlet lillies: this is the loxia orix of lin- 
NyEus. There are if ill fome of th e fea horfe,or hippopotamus 
amphibius , in this river ; but it is now prohibited to fhoot 
any 
