FOURTH JOURNEY. 
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return. Among thefe Hottentots was our guide PeclrOj who 
had left us a few days before ; there were alfo two captains, 
one of whom had a cane, dated feventeen hundred and five, 
and his name engraved on the top of it, Vulcan; and the 
other had one with the name, Jephtah. 
In the morning I dlfpatched a Hottentot to Hermannias 
Engelbright, defiring him to fend us a fupply of frefli cattle, 
in order to enable us to afcend a fteep hill which lay in our 
next day’s journey. 
On our firfi: arrival amongft our hofpltable friends, we were 
quite invigorated, and delighted with the appearance of every 
thing around us. We had exchanged a country untrodden by 
human feet, or only inhabited by the moft wretched of favages, 
for the fociety of friends and generous hofts, and after a jour¬ 
ney of fix weeks, through dry and fultry defarts, found our- 
felves in a land adorned with flowers of the moft beautiful 
colours. The contrail: was truly exhilirating, though it was 
not unexpected. Moft of the plants in this part of the coun¬ 
try were well known to me, fuch as Ixias, Gladiolus, Gerani¬ 
ums, and a great variety of Orchlfes, which are produced in 
the marfhes. AVe agreed to remain here a few days, during 
which I loft my companion, Colonel Gordon, who intended to 
direct his courfe to the eaftward in fearch of a nation, called 
Briquas, of the Caftre tribe. My intention was to proceed to 
the northward, to crofs the Orange River, and to vifit the 
Great Nimiqua Land. During my ftay at this place, I made 
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