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FOURTH JOURNEY. 
Rie Beck's CaJile~—Verlore?i Valley—Lofe our way—yoined by Colonel Gordon 
—Separate again—Depredations by Lions—Hartebeejl Rivier— yoined 
again by Colonel Gordon—Arrive at the laji houje to the northward^ along 
the Atlantic Ocean—Fear of the natives to accompany us—Dreary defarts — 
Afflidlmg fcarcity of water—Lofe Mr. Pinar., Colonel Gordon s compa 72 ion 
—OfricPs neji—Orange River—Beautiful plants— Meet with Mr. Pinar: 
dijirefsful fituation of that geiitleman^ and the Hottentots who accompajiied 
him—Wild Men : unable to form any intercourfe with them : defcription of 
their huts—Converfe at length with the ?iatives— Lhe cou?it?y very thinly 
inhabited— Govermnejit and manners of thefe favages—Plant ufed by the 
Hottentots to produce fre—Herd of Zebras— Plorned Snake — Paj't with 
Colonel Gordon — Copper Berg—Defcription of the woods on Orange River^ 
and the afiimals fotmd there—Lions River—Manners of the people in this 
part of Africa—Curious fpecies of Sheep—Obfervations on the African 
moimtams — Camelopardalis —Small Nimiqua Land—Camdinie Rivier— 
Himting the Antelope —Plant made ufe of for poifonhjg Hyenas. 
O N the eighteenth of June, feventeen hundred and feventy- 
nine, I again departed from the Cape Town, in company 
with Mr. Sebaftian Van Renan. We directed our courfe to 
Ronde Bofch, his father’s houfe, where we were detained three 
days by the inclemency of the weather. 
1779. 
June. 
Upon leaving this place, v/e proceeded north, towards the 
Groena Kloaf, a country of which the greateft part belongs to 
the Dutch Company. After palling a heavy fand, we arrived 
