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p\ember. Search of them, who returned at midnight. This day we 
—V-—paffed difagreeably, being expofed to the fcorching heat of the 
fun, and entirely dehitute of water. 
On the next, we agreed that it would be bed to return to 
the river for water, and leave the waggon in its prefent htua- 
tlon. Mr. Van Renan being lick, remained to take charge of 
the baggage, which required fome guard from the number of 
bulh Hottentots who infefted this part of the country. We 
then directed our courfe towards the river, and took with us 
an empty calk and a cann, which we had by the waggon. We 
found the river to be diftant from us about eight miles in a 
a dired line. We faw, on our arrival, the remainder of two 
.Hippopotami, which we had lliot fome days before, thrown 
out of the river. After refrelliing ourfelves, we filled our 
calk and cann, which Jacobus Ryke and myfelf carried, leaving 
our Flottentots to bring the cattle to the waggon. The heat 
of the fun, and the fatiguing journey we had over the fand, 
obliged us to expend great part of the water before we arrived 
at the waggon, which was at fix in the evening. As foon as 
our oxen arrived, we made another attempt to proceed; but 
after travelling about ten miles farther, our cattle appeared in 
the fame condition as before. Mr. Van Renan and Jacobus 
Ryke therefore agreed to go on to the houfe of one Vander 
Hever, which was about fifty miles to the fouthward of this 
place. They faddled their horfes early, the twenty-eighth, 
and left us in this difagreeable fituation, without water or fire. 
I fent a Hottentot to a rock, about ten miles difiance to the 
fouth-eaft, where there was a little water. In the afternoon, 
