10th January 1779

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[10th January 1779]
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by van zyl

Latitude

miswy 18 gr n:w:

‘t selfde weer en wind z:w:
term 66 ­ 92 ­ 75.
peiling van de rug by het huis Juffer ryk n:o:
oliphants riv mond w: t: n: 6 myl daar de doorn en oliph: riv in een loopt z:o: 1½ myl Cari bergen n n w 2 gr w hier by ten westen haalt men zout hiet daar Companies drift. [in margin:] ati riv: troetroe mascamma bidouw water loopen byvan zyl zyn twede plaats vredens daal in oliphants riv, en doornriv aan de andere zyde: koekenaap een hottentots naam.
langs oliphants riv: vele capokbossen die de taaye bast hebben, en doorn en willige boomen. by de windhoek de wolve gift boom.
vertrok w: t: n: op na de mond der riv: en arriveerde na 4. uur rydens osse wagen. op de gewesen plaats van koekemoer ook bakkeley plaats genoemt. het veld lage ruggens ros sand dog de basis kley lage struiken veel harpuis bosjes van een ander soort, leggende veel gum onder de struiken.

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[10th January 1779]
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At van Zyl’s.

Latitude:

Error 18 degrees north-west

The same weather and south-west wind.
Thermometer 66 - 92 - 75.
Bearings from the north east ridge: at Mrs. Ryck’s house, north-east; Oliphants River mouth, west by north six miles; at the confluence of the Doorn and Oliphants rivers, south east, 1½ miles; Karee Mountains, north-north-west, 2 degrees west. To the west is a place where they get salt; it is called Compagnies Drift.

The Aties river, the Troetroe, the Maskamma and the Biedouw run into the Oliphants River at Van Zyl’s second farm, Vredensdaal, and the Doorn River on the other side, at Koekenaap (a Hottentot name).
Along the Oliphants River there are many cotton-bushes, the kind that have a hard bark, and thorn- and willow-trees. At Windhoek there are wolwegift-trees. Departed west to north to the mouth of the river and arrived after a four hours’ journey with the ox wagon at the farm that used to be Koekemoer's, called Bakkeleyplaats. The veld has low ridges and reddish-brown sand (but with a clay base). Low shrubs, many resin-bushes, but of a different kind. There is much gum lying under the shrubs.