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January irregular blotches or fpots on their Ikin. After a very 
^ difagreeable day’s march, through a dry ftony country, we 
arrived at night at the Sundays River, which is diflant from 
the Cape Town about nine hundred miles. This river was the 
extent of Mr. Mafon’s journey to the eallward. There are ftill 
fome of the Hippopotami found here, but they are very j(liy. 
The following day I vilited one of the Dutch boors, who 
had relided in that part of the country for many years. This 
man was polTeffed of numerous herds of cattle ; but had no 
corn, and fcarcely a houfe to live in, though the place was 
favourable for both. But the generality of thofe people are 
of fo indolent a difpohtion, that they feldom trouble themfelves 
either to build houfes or to cultivate the ground. Thofe of 
them who chufe to be induftrious, and to make the moft of 
their advantages, are enabled to live in a very comfortable 
manner. 
One of our companions, Mr. Tunies, left us on the thirty- 
firft, and we were joined by Jacob Kock, an old German, 
whom I mentioned at Swart Kops Rivier. Mr. Van Renan 
and I v/ent on towards the Great Fifli River. At noon we 
overtook our waggon at a place which, in the Hottentot lan¬ 
guage, is called Curnow. We were informed by our fervants, 
that they had been difturbed in the night by fome Elephants, 
which came very near the waggon. 
In the afternoon we continued our journey to a plantation, 
called the Sand Fleet, belonging to our fellow traveller, Jacob 
