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TRAVELS IN AFRICA. 
y^79' fatisfa8;ion of meeting Colonel Gordon, who had arrived there 
^ only a few hours before us. 
On the banks of this river our caravan made a (iiort ftay, of 
which I was glad to take advantage in order to vifit and infpeft 
the dope of the Camis Berg, which is adorned with a great 
variety of evergreen dirubs ; but as this was the winter feafon 
I found very few in dower. , 
When properly reded, we determined on profecuting our 
journey to the northward, having the Camis Berg on our right 
hand ; and in the evening, of the twenty-fifth, arrived at a 
Hottentot village, which confided of eighteen huts, where we 
paded the night, and next day continued our courfe northward. 
At noon we met a peafant who had come from the Great 
River, and was travelling towards the Cape, accompanied by 
a deferter, who had been feven years abfent, and had travelled 
over a great part of the country. This poor fellow was a na¬ 
tive of Sweden, and made many fenfible reflections upon his 
misfortunes in Africa. This evening we arrived at the houfe 
of one Hermannias Engelbright, where we dayed feveral days, 
and fupplied ourfelves with neceffaries for our intended journey 
along the fiiore of the Atlantic Ocean, as this was the lad 
houfe we were likely to meet with in our way. It is fituate 
on a branch of the Camis Berg ; and, according to Colonel 
Gordon’s obfervation of the barometer, we found it to be two 
thoufand and eighty feet high, and in latitude thirty degrees. 
We were drenuoufly advifed by the natives not to proceed 
farther. They informed us that we had to pafs an uninha- 
