3c 8 Mr. masson’s Botanical 'travels* 
However, he directed us in the way ; and told us, he would 
tye a piece of white cloth on a branch of a tree, where 
he knew there was water; hut defired us not to go to* 
thofe places without fire-arms, as there was commonly a 
lion lurking near them ; who knowing that all the animals- 
muft come there to drink, he feldom failed to feize his 
prey. At night we overtook our fellow traveller, who- 
had taken up his lodging on a bare eminence, without a- 
bufh to lhelter him ; though at fome diftance there was a 
fmall wood of mimofa trees along the banks of a river 
that was then dry, which we thought much preferable 
to his fituation. But he told us, it was much more dan- 
gerous on account of wild beafts; and that there often 
fell fuch fudden fhowers in the mountains, that peo- 
ple who had lodged by the rivers, had, with their wag- 
gons and oxen, been carried away in the night while 
they lay afleep. He left us early next morning, but we- 
were obliged to flay till noon to let our oxen feed, and* 
then went on until fun-let; but unhappily found no 
water, which mortified us much, having a long day’s 
journey to the next watering, place. All next day 
we travelled over this thirfty land, where we buffered 
from the heat of the Sun and want of water ; but our 
bufferings were Hill aggravated when we thought on 
our poor animals, who often lay down in the yoke 
during the heat of the day. This defart is extenfive; 
being bounded on the N. and N.E. by a chain of fiat 
mountains, called Bockland’s Bergen (Bockland’s Moun- 
tains) and on the W. and N.W. by the Atlantic Ocean. 
It 
