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inhabitants of the Cape, when their other woods are ex- 
haufted. In them are numbers of wild buffaloes that are 
very fierce, and fome elephants ; which renders travelling 
dangerous. We now directed our courle Northward 
to the foot of the great chain of mountains, which we had 
again to crofs ; it is there very broad, being a hard day’s 
march from one fide to the other. This pais is called by 
the peafants Hartiquas Kloof. 
1 9th, We were feveral hours in attending, and after 
defcending on the other fide, we entered a valley, fur- 
rounded by lofty mountains : here we retted that night 
by a ftream of water, where we collected many curious 
plants. 
20th, We continued our journey through a difmal 
valley, where we faw neither man nor bead; but our la- 
bour was generoutty rewarded by the productions ot the 
vegetable kingdom, having found feveral new' fpecies of 
plants, which for neatnefs and elegance exceeded any 
thing I had ever feen. At night we got clear of the 
mountains, but entered a rugged country, which the 
new inhabitants name Canaan’s Land; though it might 
rather be called the Land of Sorrow ; for no land could 
exhibit a more wafteful profpeCt; the plains confiding 
of nothing but rotten rock, intermixed with a little red 
loam in the interftices, which fupported a variety of 
fcrubby bufhes, in their nature evergreen, but, by the 
fcorching heat of the Sun, dripped almoft of all their 
leaves. Yet notwithftanding the difagreeable afpeCt 
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