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TRAVELS IN AFRICA. 
)aJber road. Here we met with a gentleman who had been 
at Zwellendam, and was on his return to the Cape. He in¬ 
formed us, that the day before he had pafTed a place where 
they killed a large lion, and warned us to be on our guard, 
as more of thofe fierce animals were flill lurking about the 
fame place : for lions are found between this place and the 
Cape, which is diflant about one hundred Englifh miles. After 
parting with our friend, we croffed the Eott Rivier, and about 
eight in the evening came to the Swart Berg, or Blackhill, 
where there is a warm bath. The company have ereded a 
houfe for the reception of thofe who chufe to ufe the bath ; 
but travellers generally refide at a farm-houfe, 'which is little 
more than a mile diftant. The hill, whence the fpring ilTues, 
is compofed of a fpecies of granite, with much iron. The bath, 
nfed !)y the Europeans, is in temperature an hundred and thirty- 
three degrees by Farenheit’s thermometer; but may be reduced 
to any degree of heat by a ftream of cold water, which runs 
clofe by the place r at a little dihance from this there is ano¬ 
ther for flaves and Hottentots, the heat of which is one hundred 
and fifteen degrees. We found fcveral people here from the 
Cape, ufnig the 'water of the bath, which they believe to be 
a fpecihe in all cafes. The country about it is very pleafant; 
and there is excellent paflure for cattle. This diffrid abounds 
in game; and particularly in that fpecies of antelope called by 
the Dutch, Bonta Bock"^. Partridges are alfo very numerous 
here. From this place we direded our courfe eaftward, leav¬ 
ing the river Zondereynds Berg on our left hand, paffing 
* “ The Buntebokj fomewhat lefs, but more corpulent in proportion than the Hartbeefl^ 
is the Antilope Scripta of Pallas^ and the Guib of Puffon.” Sparman, 2d edit, vol. I. p. 130. 
