November coun*:ry around ¡s rather naked of trees; but produces a great '— *— 1 variety of fucculent plants. We were furniihed by our benevolent hoft with a team of frefh oxen, which were neceffary to enable us to pafs through a deep fandy plain ; and were accompanied by a peafant of the Nimiqua Land, who was travelling towards the Cape. We continued our journey about twenty miles to the fouthward, and at night came to a large cove, called the Heer Lodfie- ment*, where we refted till the next day. In the afternoon we proceeded on our journey through a deep white fandy plain, where were a variety of plants, fuch as the Afpalathus, Leucadendron, and many others which were unknown to me. We travelled till midnight, when we found a little water, near which we palled the night. The next morning we proceeded to a farm, called the Long Valley, which is diftant from the Elephant’s River about iixty miles. Here we flayed all night, and were, as ufual, hofpitably entertained. From this place we directed our courfe ealt by fouth, along the valley. In the night fome animal fprung out of a bulh, which fo greatly alarmed our oxen, that it was with difficulty we could keep them ftiil. We fuppofed the noife to proceed from an Hyena, as we heard the cries of thofe animals fome time after at a very confiderable diftance. The fourteenth, we arrived at the Berg Valley, where we flayed all night, at the houfe of Jofias Engelbright. * Gentlemens Lodgings. I difpatched my waggon, on the fifteenth, towards the Pic- No'v^ er quet Berg, and together, with my companion, paffed the day 1— .— ■> in this place, where I fhot variety of birds, which I found in great abundance. The next day we proceeded on our journey; paffed a place called the Croffee, where the Berg Valley joins the Venlore Valley, and both affume a weftward direction. At noon we overtook the waggon, and refted the afternoon at the houfe of a Mr. Smith. Towards the evening, Mr. Smith and I made a fhort excurfion towards the hill, and took each of us a gun. On our return we fhot four large Flamingoes, from four to five and fix feet long. We faw alfo the Yellow Snake, or Covra Capel. We afterwards directed our courfe along the Picquet Berg, on the fide of the large chain of mountains which commences at the end of the Hottniqua Land, and extends through the interior part of the country to about twenty miles from the Atlantic Ocean. In the afternoon we arrived at the houfe of a Dutchman, where we flayed all night, and were well entertained. This farm is fruitful, producing plenty of corn and European fruits. The following day I made an'excurfion to the top of the mountain, where I had a view of the Table Land to the fouthward, diftant about fixty or feventy miles. Here I c q I - leded but few plants. The mountain is well watered, and is
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