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TRAVELS IN AFRICA, 
^ T79- Hiootino; at the next day. The foil of this country is of a 
November. ^ , 
^—<—' fandy loam, and the water is every where bad. The climate 
and produce of the country are much the fame as in the vici¬ 
nity of the Orange River. 
On the following morning we left the waggon, and direTed 
our courfe north, and after afcending a high hill, we entered 
a large plain to the northward. It was covered with the Me- 
zembrianthemum Tuburonim. Here we prepared to enjoy 
the entertainment which had induced our hay on the banks 
of the Camdinie Rivier. The Antelopes divided themfelves 
into large flocks of at leaf!: twenty or thirty thoufand in each 
flock. We purfued them from eight in the morning till noon, 
and killed and wounded feveral ; and the Hottentots who ac¬ 
companied us, fliot feveral with their poifoned arrows, in the 
ufe of which they are expert. In the afternoon we continued 
our journey to a place, called the Kibilkow, where was a Hot¬ 
tentot’s Kraal. We were here vifited by four captains, or 
chiefs, who amufed us during the whole night. 
I made an excurfion, on the twenty-firft, through part of 
the country in fearch of plants, but difcovered few in flower. 
I found a fpecies of Flint here, wdiich is ufed by the Hotten¬ 
tots in making their harpoons, and efteemed by them as 
preferable to iron for this purpofe. 
From this place we returned to the Bokke Veld, and arrived 
there after a journey of four days. We thence directed our 
courfe towards the Windhoek, where we arrived in a few 
