Augutt blow here every day. At noon we obferved we were in lati- s—r—1 tude twenty-nine degrees, five minutes; we then left the waggons, and directed our courfe along the fhore, which was much elevated. In the higheft rocks we found feveral petrifadtions of (hells, fome of which were about an hundred and fifty feet above the furface of the fea. Colonel Gordon’s cattle began to drop down in the waggon, having had neither grafs nor water for two days; but my waggoners kept on their journey, and unknown to me left the others behind. At nine in the evening we overtook my waggon, and found our people had been confulting whether or not they fhould return, as they had not the lead profpeit of finding water. They fuppofed that Colonel Gordon’s companion had loft his w7ay, and were in great doubt whether wre Ihould ever fee or hear of him more. About ten, one of the Hottentots arrived, who had left the waggon in company with him, but parted the firft day. He brought the glad tidings, that he had found a fountain of excellent water about fix miles to the northward, and brought a little with him in a calabafh. This animated us greatly, and next morning Colonel Gordon and Jacobus Van Renan returned to his waggon, while we directed our courfe to the fountain, which we reached about nine, and the others arrived at noon. This place not only afforded us good water, but excellent grafs for our cattle, and variety of fucculent plants, fuch as Geraniums, Stapelias and Mezembryanthemums. This fountain is fituate between the two precipices, which were much decayed and worn. We continued here a whole day in order to reft our cattle, *779- J Augulr. and in the meanwhile Colonel Gordon and myfelf made an «■—*—J excurfion to the fea, which was diftant about nine miles. We faw many large Mimofa trees which had been thrown up by the ocean, and fome at the diftance of a mile from the water were almoft buried in the fan d ; from thefe appearances we concluded we were not far from the Great River. We directed our courfe northward, on the fifteenth, and with much difficulty and fatigue we penetrated about ten miles, through a fandy country. In our road along the ihore we obferved the traces of human feet, which appeared fo recent that we concluded fome perfon had palfed that way on that day or the day preceding. We were in hopes that thefe might have been fome of the Hottentots who accompanied Mr. Pinar, Colonel Gordon’s companion. In the night we made fires as a fignal, but the fignal was not anfwered; we concluded therefore that they muft have been the wild natives; and from finding the (kin of a Seal, which was quite frefh, our conjecture was confirmed. We now loft all hopes of ever feeing Mr. Pinar again, as he had been feparated from us four days in thefe dreary defarts, without our having been able to diico- ver whither he could have directed his fteps. During the following day our route lay to the northward, and at noon we paffed two hills, which we had obferved during our journey the two preceding days. As they were fituate at a very fmall diftance from each other, and were very fimilar in their figure and fize, we gave them the name of the Two
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