Cape. It alfo produces good fruit, fuch as Oranges, Figs, Mulberries, Peaches-, Apricots, Almonds, &c. This place is called the Good Hope. From the Good Hope, I directed my courfe fouth-weft, and pafled the hot baths. On the tenth I faw a number of Oftriches, with which animal this country abounds. After a very fatiguing march, I arrived at the houfe of one Folkenhager, where I refted till the thirteenth, when two peafants came up who were on their way to the Cape ; they offered me a place in their waggon, which I thankfully accepted, my horfe being quite tired with the heavy roads I had already pafled. We continued our -journey along the banks of the Elephants River ; and on the feventeenth arrived at the Atquas Kloaf, where we refted the eighteenth ; and here I collected many different forts of plants, particularly Aloes and Mezembryan- thimums. • The Atquas Kloaf, which we pafled on the nineteenth, is a vflry rugged path ; but afforded me great variety of plants. On the twentieth, we reached a place called the Sure Flacfta, when I parted with my fellow travellers, and proceeded towards the Hottniqua Land, in order to examine the extenfive woods upon the range of mountains which we had juft paflèd. At night I came to the houfe of Mr. Bota, a very obliging man, who furnifhed me with a guide the next morning ; and, at thè clofe of that day’s journey, I found myfelf by the White Elfe River ; which takes its name from a tree, called by the Dutch, White Elfe. On the twenty-fecond, I adventured into the woods with a N *777ber young man of the houfe where I lodged : we took with us '— »— 1 fome dogs, expecting to meet Tigers. The woods are very thick, and produce fome of the talleft trees I ever beheld; at the very tops of which were a variety of party-coloured birds, particularly the Tarakoo, and many other fmall ones of equal beauty. The mountains are extremely fteep, and many of the moft ftately trees grow out of the naked ftrata of the rocks. I found in this wood, as in all others of that country, great abundance of the Piper Cordifolia, and the trees moft of them new. Thefe woods have their beginning to the north of Moffel Bay, and extend about one hundred and twenty miles to the eaft, ending at a place called the Sitfi- camma. Between the woods and the Indian ocean, lies an extenfive plain well inhabited by Europeans, who traffic moftly in wood, which they bring in planks to the Cape. Though this plain is covered with grafs, yet it is fo unwholfome for cattle that very few can be kept. It produces corn and wine, though of a very inferior fort. As the country from this to the Cape is well known and defcribed in both Mr. Mafon’s and Dr. Sparrman’s narratives, any farther account of it would be only repeating what has already been publifhed by thefe two gentlemen. I returned to the Cape the fame road that I travelled with Captain Gordon, and arrived on the thirteenth of January, one thoufand feven hundred and feventy-eight, at the Cape Town.
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