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without any definite direction. These slabs of rock 
were singularly shaped, and marked like huge tor¬ 
toise-shells (vide illustration), being divided by lines 
and seams into a tesselated surface. They were not 
very difficult to climb over, and even seemed to act as 
irregular stone steps upwards. In their interstices 
heaths of the size of large shrubs grew with a certain 
luxuriance, and bright yellow euryops flowers studded 
Fig. 57.—Curious Rocks, marked like a Tortoise-shell. 
the occasional patches of bare earth, while every now 
and then my eye alighted with pleasure on lovely 
clusters of pink everlasting flowers growing, where they 
did grow, so thickly that they presented a blushing 
sheet of rosy bloom. About 13,700 feet I saw the last 
resident bird, a kind of stonechat. 5 It went in little 
cheery flocks, and showed such absence of fear that I 
had to walk away from it before shooting, to avoid 
shattering my specimen. After this, with the excep- 
5 Pinarocliroa hypospodia. Vide Chapter XVIII. 
