TRAVELS IN AFRICA. 
which generally prove fatal. At this place I added much to 
my colledioii, particularly fome plants of the fhrub kind, now- 
in flower on the top of the Hentum Mountain. This emi¬ 
nence is very lofty ; and, at the feafon when I vifited it, was 
covered with fnow, frozen into a folid body of ice. I found 
a difference of thirty degrees between the thermometer here 
and ill the vale below. In the (hade it was dovm to twenty- 
fix. 
We proceeded, on the ninth, tov/ards the Bokke Land, 
which is nearly weft by fouth, from the Hentum; and, in 
two days, arrived at a place called the Tom, or Tower, which 
is a hill of a pyramidal figure, where we ftayed all night. 
On the eleventh, we pafied the Baboons Hill; the road 
was fo very bad, that it was with great difficulty we could 
keep the waggon upon its wheels. Here I colleded many 
beautiful plants, which were quite new to me. This night 
we ftayed at a brackifti river ; and the following day were 
detained till noon, having miffed our oxen. Here I vifited a 
Hottentot Kraal, which ivas about a mile diftant; and, as I 
propofed travelling over the Small Nimiqua Land, I hired one 
of the Hottentots, who fpoke Dutch, as an interpreter. In 
the afternoon we continued our journey as far as Thorn River, 
where are many Lions, fo that we were obliged to obferve the 
precautions of tying our oxen, and making fires. 
On the twelfth, we defcended the Bokke Veld Berg, 
which was fteep, but not very high, and came to a farm be- 
