74 
TRAVELS IN AFRICA. 
Nowmber ^ouiitry ai'ound is rather naked of trees ; but produces a great 
variety of fucculent plants. 
We were furniflred by our benevolent hoft v/ith a team of 
freili oxen, which were necelfary to enable us to pafs through 
a deep fandy plain ; and were accompanied by a peafant of 
the Nimiqua Land, who was travelling towards the Cape. We 
continued our journey about twenty miles to the fouthward, 
and at night came to a large cove, called the Heer Lodlie- 
menf^j where we reded till the next day. In the afternoon 
we proceeded on our journey through a deep white fandy 
plain, where were a variety of plants, fuch as the Afpalathus, 
Leucadendron, and many others which were unknown to me» 
We travelled till midnight, when we found a little water, 
near which we paffed the night. The next morning we pro- 
ceeded to a farm, called the Long Valley, which is didant 
from the Elephant’s River about dxty miles. Here we dayed 
all night, and were, as ufual, hofpitably entertained. 
From this place we directed our courfe ead by fouth, along 
the valley. In the night fome animal fprung out of a bulh, 
which fo greatly alarmed our oxen, that it was with difficulty 
we could keep them dill. We fuppofed the noife to proceed 
from an Hyena, as we heard the cries of thofe animals fome 
time after at a very condderable didance. 
The fourteenth, we arrived at the Berg Valley, where we 
dayed all night, at the houfe of Jofias Engelbright* 
Gentlemens Lodgings, 
