FOURTH JOURNEY. 
were numbers of the Camelopardalis in this neigbbourliood, 
one of which we were very delirous of fliooting, as it is a beaft 
fo little known to Europeans, that even its exiftence has been 
doubted. 
Towards the evening I made an excurhon to a hill which 
was at a little diftance from us. When I gained the fummit 
I faw feveral of the natives near a wood of Mimofa, to whom 
I immediately endeavoured to approach. On my arrival I 
found they were eating the gum uf the trees, on which indeed 
a great part of thefe people fubhft. They were dreffed exaftly 
as the inhabitants of the Small Nimiqua Land ; fome in the 
fkins of Jackals, and others in the Ikins of Marmottes, fewed 
together ; thefe animals, being very numerous in this part of 
the country. Their habitation was about three miles from 
the fountain, which I vilited in the evening; it confifted 
of fix huts. Their fbeep are very different from thofe near 
the Cape ; thefe having much longer tails, and being covered 
with hair inifead of wool, which at a diilance gives them 
more the appearance of dogs than of flieep. 
On the feventeenth we directed our courfe north-eaft, to a 
fmall fountain of water ; and took with us fome of the natives 
who knew the country. On our arrival we were obliged to 
dig pits in the fand before we could come at the water. This 
day we made an excurfion through the country, which is level 
and high. Here we had an extenfive view to the fouthward 
of the Orange River ; and to the northv/ard of a large plain, 
bounded at about the diilance of four days journey, by a range 
