Walks And Sketches At the Cape of Good Hope to Which is Subjoined a Journey From
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The banks were covered with trees, which, with the shade of the mountain, and the rushing of the water over its bed of large stones, formed to our eyes a romantic view, not the less pleasing to us, who had been exposed all day on open plains to the heat of the sun, for beinc; somewhat ' O gloomy. We proceeded with great caution, the river being here divided into three large 5 146 WALKS AXD SKETCHES streams, each of which was equal in breadth and rapidity to any we had hitherto crossed. Being sa...fe over, we congratulated each other on having passed a river which had been held up to us as a kind of bugbear, and proceeded xvith redoubled pleasure, following the tracks of Prins's waggon wheels, which were plainly discernible. At four, we reached a small house, at the door of which Prins was stand- ing, who invited us to stop. Here we pro- cured some dry barley for our horses to our great satisfaction, forage being exceedingly scarce all over the country. Halted about an hour, and then set off, being informed that another hour's ride would bring us to the house of the widow Pinar, where we might sleep.
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