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it to be of the clafs Tetrandria Monyginia. The plant I oh- ^779^ 
ferved about an hundred miles to the eaftward, on the fame '— 
river which I had vilited in the courfe of the preceding 
year. 
We fent our Hottentots out in fearch of game, on the 
twenty-feventh, while I employed myfelf in collecting plants; 
one of them returned who had fliot a Hart, which fupplied us 
for three days ; and Jacobus Van Renan wounded an Hippo¬ 
potamus ; but it fwam to a place on the oppohte fide, where 
there was no poflibility of approaching it. 
On the twenty-eighth of Auguft, we prepared our waggon 
for our departure ; and the twenty-ninth, of the following 
evening, left the river, intending to travel in the night, which 
we conceived would be better for our cattle. After travelling 
about three hours, our dogs attacked a herd of Zebras, which 
were at a little dilfance from the waggons; they feemed not 
in the leafl: fliy, and we fhot two of them, which detained 
us about an hour ; part of the flefli we took with us, and it 
proved very good food. On palling the Two Brothers, we 
obferved a fire which we fuppofed was made by three of our 
Hottentots who had left us in the morning. We travelled 
till four in the morning, when we unyoked our bullocks in a 
dry fandy plain. 
During the thirty-firfl, we continued our journey to the 
Deepe Kloaf, or Water Val, where we refled ; and in the 
evening, of the following day, proceeded on our route till about 
