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Fourth Journey (MS 107/3/1-2)

6th September 1779


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[6th September 1779]
6 maandag

term 54 - 99 - 80
Stil en om tien uren s'avonds 60
het selfde weer en wind dog niet so sterk
nam brete in een cloof om voor de wind bevryd te zyn.

Gr m
kreeg van 't Zenith 36
6 noorder decli: 26
geeft 29 34

miswysing 20 gr n:w:

peilde van een hoge heuvel het gebergte omtrent Engelbregt Z:O: h o: en sag dat het selfde gebergte omtrent ses myl van t strand paralel aan t strant voortschiet tot over Oranjes rivier. Coussis mond z:w: ½ z. een quart myl.
vertrokken onse vorige weg de rivier op en spanden na drie uren rydens uit. cours n:o: t o ½ o: tot daar wy uit kouwsi draayen. de wagen van de heer Paterson daar ik voor op sat sloeg, door onagtsaamheid der leier, so als wy de oever der rivier op reden, en by starreligt om, wy waren er met ons drien in en beseerden ons weinig, dog enige kasjes braken.

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[6th September 1779]
6 Monday

Thermometer: 54-99-80; and at ten o’clock in the evening 60. Calm. The same weather and wind but not as strong. Took latitude in a kloof in order to be out of the wind.

Degrees Minutes
Obtained from the zenith 36
6 Northerly declination 26
Gives: 29 34

Error: 20 deg. N.W.

Took bearing on the high hill in the range lying around Engelbrecht: south-east half east. Saw that the same range runs forward about six miles from the shore and parallel to the shore until across the Orange River. Kouwsie’s mouth. a quarter of a mile south-west half south

We departed on our previous road up the river and outspanned after three hours travelling. Route north-east by east half east, to where we turned away from the Kouwsie. Through the inattention of the leader, Mr Paterson’s wagon, on the front of which I was sitting, overturned by starlight as we were travelling along the bank of the river. There were three of us in it, and we were hardly harmed, but some cases were broken.