. Lake Ngami, or, Explorations and discoveries during four years' wanderings in the wilds of southwestern Africa . ssary to facilitate the , this kind of liquor is very cheap; and thougha person may have to entertain from fifty to one hundredpeople for two days together, the expense of such festivitiesrarely exceeds seven or eight pounds sterling. EXCURSIONS Dacres PULPIT. 331 Our hands being now free, the first object to which weturned our attention was to secure a vessel to carry us backto Walfisch Bay. There happened just then to be none atthe Cape but we were promised one w
. Lake Ngami, or, Explorations and discoveries during four years' wanderings in the wilds of southwestern Africa . ssary to facilitate the , this kind of liquor is very cheap; and thougha person may have to entertain from fifty to one hundredpeople for two days together, the expense of such festivitiesrarely exceeds seven or eight pounds sterling. EXCURSIONS Dacres PULPIT. 331 Our hands being now free, the first object to which weturned our attention was to secure a vessel to carry us backto Walfisch Bay. There happened just then to be none atthe Cape but we were promised one within a certain the mean time, we occupied ourselves in making the need-ful purchases, &c. I also made excursions into the neighborhood. Amongother interesting places, I visited, in company with Mr. Bain(the distinguished South African geologist), the famous pass,called after my kind host. Bains Kloof, through which theroad leads across the Drakenstein mountains from the villageof Wellington to the district of Worcestershire. The vig-nette below is a view of a certain part of the pass designated. DACEES PtIXPIT. Dacres pulpit, and has been selected from the portfolio otan accomplished friend in Cape-Town. We had nearly finished our arrangements when the newsarrived at the Cape of the extraordinary successes met with 334 AUSTRALIAN DIGGINGS HANS AND JOHN ALLEN, at the Australian gold-diggings, and the same mania, thoughnot quite to the same extent, which had turned the peoplesheads all over the world, took possession of the inhabitantsof this colony. Every available vessel was bought up orchartered for the diggings. I began seriously to appre-hend that this would deprive us of the craft we had , the owner did actually sell her, but, fortunately,placed another at our disposal, the alteration, however, caus-ing us very great delay. Though the loss, at this period, of the assistance of Hanswould have been grievous and irreparable, I thought it myduty to expl
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