which generally prove fatal. At this place I added much to my collection, particularly fome plants of the fhrub kind, now in flower on the top of the Hantum Mountain. This eminence is very lofty ; and, at the feafon when I vifited it, was covered with fnow, frozen into a folid body of ice. I found a difference of thirty degrees between the thermometer here and in the vale below. In the ihade it was down to twefity- fix. We proceeded, on the ninth, towards the Bokke Land, which is nearly weft by fouth, from the H a n tum ; and, in two days, arrived at a place called the Torn, or Tower, which is a hill of a pyramidal figure, where we flayed all night. On the eleventh, we paffed the Baboons H ill; the road was fo very bad, that it was with great difficulty we could keep the waggon upon its wheels. Here I collected many beautiful plants, which were quite new to me. This night we flayed at a brackiih river; and the following day were detained till noon, having miffed our oxen. Here I vifited a Hottentot Kraal, which was about a mile diftant ; and, as I propofed travelling over the Small Nimiqua Land, I hired one of the Hottentots, who fpoke Dutch, as an interpreter. In the afternoon we continued our journey as far as Thorn River, where are many Lions, fo that we were obliged to obferve the precautions of tying our oxen, and making fires. On the twelfth, we afcended the Bokke Veld Berg, which was fteep, but not very high, and came to a farm belongitig to Mr. Van Renan. In this joütney from the Hantum, We ihortened our diftâncé frôfo the Cape about fifty miles. '—P® The following day wë proceeded to the northern extremity of the mountain, Which is quite level on this fide, and almoft perpendicular for mote than two thoüfand feet. The foil is of a white fandy mold, intermiked with large fragments Of a fort of free-flone. This part of thè country produces very little corn : thè pafturé is efteemed good for cattle ; but, in the dry feafon, they ate much diflrefled for Want of Water. The people here behaved with the utmoft hdfpitâlity • and one of them, Jacobus Ryke, accompanied me to the Great River. On the eighteenth, we accompanied our waggon in its de- fcent down the mountain, Which was really fleép and dreadful. About ten in the morriing we got into a low level country, coveted with fucculent plants ; and the Geranium Spinofum in great abundance. This day we fhot at feveral of a fpecies of Antelope, with long iharp flrait horns, called Gems Bock, * and killed two. Thefé animals are among the làrgèft of the * “ I t is defcribed with ftfait flendér horns, near ttirée féet long* annulated above half of their length : the reft fmooth. Space between horn and horn at the points fourteen inches. At tnèir b'âfè' is'à black fpdf; in îhé middle of the face another ; a third falls from each eye to the throat,- tmited to that in thé face' by a lâtër'al band of thé fdme colour : thé nofe and reft of the face white. From the hind-part of the head, along the neck and top of the back, runs a riàfrow düfkÿ lïiîé of hairs, longer than thé reft, and ftaiiding above them, dilating towards the rump. Sides of a light reddiih aih-colour ; the lower part bounded by a broad longitudinal duiky band, reaching to thé breaft. Belly,' rutftpj and Ifegs white ; each leg markéd belôw the knées with a duiky mark. T a il covered with long black hairs ) from, the rump to the end of the hairs, two feet fix inches long. The
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