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SECOND JOURNEY. 
where we intended to day all night. Our way lay through 
a low country of a clayey foil, called Karo. We faw much '— 
game ; and the fervant of Mr. Van Renan, being an excellent 
markfman, fliot two Elks, both of which were much larger 
than an Englilli bullock: the flelh of this animal is palatable 
though dry. At night we returned to the Lion’s Dance, 
where we found our waggon. 
Early, on the feventh, we parted with our friends, and di~ 
reded our courfe fouth-weft, having the Bokke Lands Bergen 
on our left hand, and the Atlantic Ocean on our right, at the 
diftance of about thirty miles. We travelled the whole day 
and till midnight, when we found a fountain of brackllh water. 
We relied at the lide of this fountain the remaining part of 
the night. 
The next day my companion and myfelf left the waggon, 
and direded our courfe well north-well. In the afternoon we 
arrived at the Elephant’s River, and found it fo deep that our 
horfes fwam about ten yards. We foon reached the oppolite 
fhore, where, at a little dillance, was the houfe of a Dutch¬ 
man who had lived many years on the banks of this river, 
and kept a fmall boat for tranfporting waggons, in time of 
necelTity. We Hayed here, waiting for our waggon, and dried 
our clothes. 
We were employed, during the following day, in tranlport- 
ing our baggage over the river. On the banks of it are many- 
large trees of Mimofa and Tarchonanthus Camphoratus. The 
