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could it be possible that the savages had assisted Nature, and had
taken the trouble of pulling down the adjoining stones, on finding
them already cracked and loosened by the hand of time ? As the
setting sun warned us not to lose a moment, I could not examine it,
excepting at too great a distance; but while the rest continued their
route, I stopped my horse, and made a sketch of it. This scene
is represented in Plate 1. and is marked on the map by the name
of Pyramid Pass, (for the sake of euphony, instead of Obelisk Pass).
Soon after leaving this spot, we crossed a low neck between
rocky hills, and came into a small plain covered with grass, and
enclosed on every side by mountains. Through this pleasant dale
our river continued near us; and, following it through an opening
at the south-eastern corner of the plain, we there took up our
station on its banks, at the foot of a hill on which stood the kraal of
our friend Kaabi and of the Bushmen who had*laccompanied us from
the Gariep.
