TRAVELS IN AFRICA. 
Au^uii day. Mr. Pinar appeared to be much lefs injured by his unfor- 
tunate expedition than the Hottentots ; their eyes were funk 
in their heads, and they appeared more like dead than living 
men. 
We made an excurlion, on the nineteenth, along the Ihore^. 
where we found numbers of wild Geefe, Ducks, Flamingoes,. 
Pelicans, &c. The land forms a flat point, which extends 
from the mouth of the river, north-weft half weft: the Two 
Brothers, fouth-eaft by fouth, are diftant about twelve miles., 
The mouth is about half a mile in breadth ; but is enclofed 
by a ridge of rocks which lie a mile from the Ihore, in a di- 
resftion eaft and weft, and which render it impoflible for {hips 
to enter the river. The land is extremely low and barren; to 
the weftward, fandy ; and to the eaft, rocky. In the evening 
our Hottentot arrived, v/hom we had never expected to fee 
again. 
The next day I crofted the river, in company with Colonel 
Gordon, and left the boat in order to make an excurflon to 
the weftward. Here we obferved the print of human feet, 
which appeared to us to be frefh. Upon this we refolved to 
purfue the track, and on our way faw feveral fnares laid for 
the wild beafts. After travelling about five miles to the north¬ 
ward, we perceived fome of the natives on a fandy hillock, 
about one mile from us ; we made feveral iignals to them, but 
they feemed to be quite wild, and made their efcape. We 
continued to follow their path, which brought us to their habi¬ 
tation ; but we were ftill as unable to bring about any inter- 
