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to another part of the river. When we arrived, all our Hot- Se^ f b'er< tentots were hunting the Hippopotamus, having no proviiion * 1 in the waggon. They had hunted the whole day without fuc- cefs, except wounding one, which by the rapidity of the ftream was driven to the oppofite ihore. We obferved feveral natives, to whom we made repeated figns; but they did not feem to underftand us. On the feventh, we agreed to return the way we came, having had nothing to eat for the two preceding days, except fome wild prickly cucumbers, which grew here in abundance. Before we took leave of this place, I alked Mr. Van Renan to accompany me to a high hill about a league to the eaftward of us,, which he readily agreed to. When arrived at the fum- mit, we faw a large herd of cattle about fix miles to the eaftward ; on which we immediately returned to the waggon with the glad tidings, and a Hottentot was difpatched to biing us a iheep or a bullock, whatever it fhould coft. Our meffenger returned in the evening with three iheep, and the Hottentots to whom they belonged, who ftayed with us during the night. The river affumes a wefterly diredtion in this par t ; and I found it to be the fame that Captain Gordon had vifited the year before, and had named the Orange River, in honour of the Prince of Orange. On both fides of the river are large trees, peculiar to this country, fuch as Mimofa of different forts; Salix, and a great variety of ihrubby plants. The mountains, have, upon the whole, a barren appearance, being in general naked rocks; though they are in fome places adorned by a variety of fucculent plants; and in particular


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