3 1 6 Mr. m a.sso n’s Botanical T ravels, 
wheels fail with an iron chain to retard their mo- 
tion. After two hours and a half employed in hard 
labour, fometimes pulling on one fide, fometimes on the 
other, and fometimes all obliged to hang on with our 
whole ftrength behind the waggon, to keep it from run- 
ning over the oxen, we arrived at the foot of the moun- 
tain, where we found the heat more troublefome than 
the cold had been on the top. We now entered a 
large diviiion of the Carro which lies along the foot of 
the Rogge Veld’s Mountains, being a defart of four days 
journey, with no more than three pits of brackifh wa- 
ter to be found in all that extent, which was at this 
feafon forfaken by every living creature ; but in winter 
it is the habitation of the Rogge Veld Boors, as I ob- 
ferved before. 
5th, To Unlucky River, called fo from a man having 
been there formerly devoured by a lion. We remained 
here a day to reft our oxen, having found a pit with 
brackifh water, and fome reeds, which the oxen de- 
voured with greedinefs. 
8th, About eleven o’clock at night we got clear of the 
defart, and arrived at the foot of the Bocke Velde moun- 
tains, where we lodged by a rivulet of pure frefh water ; 
and we fpent the remainder of that night and part of 
next day in great luxury. 
nth, To Verkeerde Valley, where we refted three 
days, having found good pafture for our oxen, and a large 
lake of frefh water, well flocked with water-fowl. We 
lived 
