good grids. Here tlie river divides ltfelf into three branches, which are each about a mile broad. "We law feveral fires to the eaflward \ and on the fourteenth we went over the river. The itream was fo rapid that we had much difficulty in croffing it. We had all our neceflaries packed upon oxen, which I hired from the Hottentots for that purpofe; and this night encamped under a large Ebony tree, about eight miles to the northward of the river. We next directed our courfe eafl north-eaft, through a hilly country ; and at noon paffed the Lions River, the banks of which are in general inhabited by thofe animals. The country is extremely barren, and covered with fmall fharp ftones, which proved very injurious to our horfes hoofs. In the evening we arrived at a fmall brackifh fountain, where we flayed all night, and the next day our way lay through a narrow path between two high mountains. At noon we faw feveral of the natives, who were ■ in fearch of wild honey. I found heie the moft beautiful plant I ever faw of the Fentandria Monogynia clafs. It grows to fix feet high, and is full of long fpines from the ground to the tops, and forms a large crown of crifped leaves, and ieddifh tubelar flowers, tinged with yellow and green. In the'afternoon we came to a fountain of brackifh water, where we flayed all night, being informed by the natives that there wrere numbers of the Camelopardalis in this neighbourhood, one of which we were very defirous of fhooting, as ft is a beafl fo little known to Europeans, that even its exiftence has been doubted. PENTANDRA MONOGYNIA . ¿'iruy/ia
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