SECOND JOURNEY. 
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longing to Mr. Van Renan. In this journey from the Han- 
turn, we fbortened our diflance from the Cape about fifty »y--. 
miles. 
The following day we proceeded to the northern extremity 
of the mountain, which is quite level on this fide, and almofi: 
perpendicular for more than two thoufand feet. The foil is of 
a white fandy mold, intermixed with large fragments of a fort 
of free-ftone. This part of the country produces very little 
corn: the pafture is eileemed good for cattle ; but, in the dry 
feafon, they are much diflrefied for want of water. The peo¬ 
ple here behaved with the utmoft hofpitality ; and one of 
them, Jacobus Ryke, accompanied me to the Great River. 
On the eighteenth, we accompanied our waggon in its de- 
fcent down the mountain, which was really fteep and dreadful. 
About ten in the morning we got into a low level country, 
covered with fucculent plants; and the Geranium Spinofum in 
great abundance. This day we fhot at feveral of a fpecies of 
Antelope, with long fiiarp firait horns, called Gems Bock,* 
and killed two. Thefe animals are among the largeft of the 
^ “ It is defcribed with ftrait flender horns, near three feet long, annulated above half of 
their length: the reft fmooth. Space between horn and horn at the points fourteen inches. 
At their bafe is a black fpot; in the middle of the face another j a third falls from each eye to 
the throat, united to that in the face by a lateral band of the fame colour ; the nofe and reft of 
the face white. From the hind-part of the head, along the neck and top of the back, runs a 
narrow dufky line of hairs, longer than the reft, and ftanding above them, dilating towards the 
rump. Sides of a light reddifti afti-colourj the lower part bounded by a broad longitudinal 
dufky band, reaching to the breaft. 
Belly, rump, and legs white •, each leg marked below the knees with a dufky mark. Tail 
covered with long black hairs j from the rump to the end of the hairs, two feet fix inches long. 
The 
