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*779' had beaten them off the field, and taken many of their February. 1— ,— 1 cattle. We arrived, after fome time, at a lake of brackiih water, called by the Hottentots, Kys Guna Kie K a tie ; each of thefe letters, which are accented, are pronounced with a hard im- pulfe of the tongue : at this place we flayed all the whole night of the firft of February. We intended, early the following morning, to profecute our intended journey ; but miffing our cattle, our firft care was to difpatch our Hottentots in fearch of them. In a few hours one of the men returned and informed us, that they had been ftolen by the Caffres ; that they had difcerned the prints of their feet, and faw, from tracing them, that the cattle had been driven towards a village belonging to a Caffre captain, whofe name was Mahhotie. We fent our meffenger to the other Hottentots, and ordered them to follow the path of the cattle till they found them, which they did. They returned with them towards the evening, and informed us that they were found a little way from the Kraal. One of the Caffres told them, they had taken the cattle by miftake; the evening being dark, they thought they belonged to the Hottentots with whom they had fought the day before. Though it was now late, we continued our journey about twenty miles.. In the night we arrived at a place, called the K ’a Cha Chow, which is one of the branches of the Boihman’s River, and where there was formerly a houfe belonging to our companion, Jacob Kock. The morning, of the third, I requefted Mr. Kock to accom- FeJ779- pany us to the Great Filh River, with which he readily com- 1—-v—t plied. We thence purfued our journey to the eaftward, through a pleafant country, though quite uninhabited. There are numerous herds of quadrupeds to be found here, of the different fpecies which have been already defcribed. The grafs was fo high that it reached our horfes bellies. This part of the country is agreeably diverfified with little pleafant woods upon the declivities of the hills; and here I found a fpecies of Leucadendron which was quite unknown to me, and many other beautiful plants. A fpecies of Palm, mentioned by Mr. Mafon in his Second Journey, is alfo fcattered over the whole country; I found feveral upwards of twenty feet in height. The Hottentots make bread of the pith of this p la n t; the method of preparing which I ihall take another opportunity of defcribing. In the evening we came to a place, called Now Tu. T h at the reader may have a proper idea of our courfe, I am obliged more frequently to refer to the points of the com- pafs than, perhaps, may be thought confiftent with elegance. Our road from this place lay eaft by north. On the fourth, at noon, we came to a fmall river, which at this time was almoft dry; we, however, refted a few hours, feeing a herd of Buffaloes at a diftance from us, which we intended to amufe ourfelves with ihooting in the afternoon. In this place I found a beautiful plant of the Liliaceous kind, with a large crown of white and red flowers. After dinner we divided ourfelves into different parties, and as foon as we were within Ihot we at


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