JOURNEY III. 309 
It is uninhabitable in fummer; but in winter, or during 
the rainy feafon, the Bockland people come down 
with their herds, which by feeding upon fucculent 
fhrubs, that are very lalt, in a lhort time grow remark- 
ably I at. There ftill remains a great treafure of new 
plants in this country, elpecially of the fucculent kind, 
which cannot be preferred but by having good figures 
and defcriptions of them made on the fpot ; which might 
be eafily accomplifhed in the rainy feafon, when there is 
plenty of frefh water every where. But at this fea- 
fon of the year, we were obliged to make the greateft 
expedition to fave the lives of our cattle, only collecting 
what we found growing along the road fide, which 
amounted to above 100 plants, never before defcribed. 
Towards the evening we arrived at the foot of Bockland’s 
Berg, where we paffed the night by a penurious ftream 
of frefh water, but which yielded us no lmall comfort. 
Nov. 2d, The peafant who had paffed us in the Carro,. 
as loon as he arrived at home, immediately fent two 
team of frefh oxen to help us up the mountain, our 
own being much weakened by the heavy roads. In the 
cool of the afternoon we afcended by a winding road, 
which was fo very rugged and fteep, that it took 
five hottentots with ropes made faft to the waggon to 
keep it from overturning. The face of the mountain 
confifts intirely of fcattered rock, being acceflible only in' 
this place, and is overgrown with a great variety of large 
Woody plants, molt of which were new. We found 
a new fpecies of aloe here, called by the Dutch Koker 
5. Boom,. 
