JOURNEY II. *8t 
my furprize flouriflied amazingly, and all the Tides of 
the bafon where the people bathed were matted round 
with the fibres. 
3 ith, 1 2th, 1 3th, 1 4th, We travelled along the banks 
of this river, making fhort ftages. The meadows yielded 
excellent pafture for our cattle, the grafs reaching up to 
their bellies, but of a coarfe texture, being chiefly Jun - 
cus,fcirpus , and cyperus. 
1 5th, We attempted to crofs the high ridge of moun- 
tains on the North fide ; but found it impracticable, hav- 
ing overturned our waggons on the fide of a precipice, 
and greatly damaged them, which obliged us to return 
to a peafant’s houfe to get them repaired. This done, we 
held a confultation what courfe to take ; and after fome 
warm debates, concluded to fend our waggons round to 
a place called Rood Land, there to wait for us, while the 
Doctor and I directed our courfe through a country called 
Koud Bocke Veld, or Cold Country of Antelopes; To 
named from a fpecies of antelopes which inhabits here, 
called Spring bock. This animal when hunted, inflead 
of running, avails itfelf of furprizing fprings or leaps, 
which I fhall have occafion more particularly to mention 
hereafter. 
1 7 th, We directed our courfe Eaftward through Elans 
Kloof, a narrow winding paffage through a high chain 
of mountains, which lies to the N.E. of Olyfant’s Rivier. 
This road is rugged beyond defcription, coniifting of 
broken and Blattered rocks and rugged precipices, en- 
compaffed on each fide with horrid impaffable moun- 
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