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TRAVELS IN AFRICA. 
Now^nber Cape. It alfo produces good fruit, fuch as Oranges, Figs, 
Mulberries, Peaches, Apricots, Almonds, See. This place is 
called the Good Hope. 
From the Good Flope, I dire8;ed my courfe fouth-weft, and 
palled the hot baths. On the tenth I faw a number of Ofhriches, 
with which animal this country abounds. After a very fati¬ 
guing march, I arrived at the houfe of one Folkenhager, where 
I relied till the thirteenth, when two peafants came up who 
were on their way to the Cape; they offered me a place in 
their waggon, which I thankfully accepted, my horfe being 
quite tired with the heavy roads I had already paffed. We 
continued our journey along the banks of the Elephants 
River ; and on the feventeenth arrived at the Atquas Kloaf, 
where we relied the eighteenth ; and here I collected many 
different forts of plants, particularly Aloes and Mezembryan- 
thimums. 
The Atquas Kloaf, vdiich we paffed on the nineteenth, is a 
very rugged path ; but afforded me great variety of plants. 
On the twentieth, we reached a place called the Sure Fla6la, 
when I parted with my fellow travellers, and proceeded to¬ 
wards the Hottniqua Land, in order to examine the extenlive 
woods upon the range of mountains which we had jull palled. 
At night I came to the houfe of Mr. Bota, a very obliging 
man, who furnilhed me vdth a guide the next morning ; and, 
at the clofe of that day’s journey, I found myfelf by the White 
Elfe River ; which takes its name from a tree called, by the 
Dutch, White Elfe. 
