Lake Ngami

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. ARRIVAL AT WALFISCH BAY SCENERY HARBOR DESCRIBED WANT OP WATER CAPABILITIES FOR TRADE FISH WILD FOWL MIRAGE?SAND FOUNTAIN THE BUSH-TICK THE NARAS QUADRUPEDS SCARCE MEETING THE HOTTENTOTS THEIR FILTHY HABITS THE ALARUM THE TURNOUT DEATH OF A LION ARRIVAL AT 8CHEPPMANSDORF THE PLACE DESCRIBED MR....
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. ARRIVAL AT WALFISCH BAY SCENERY HARBOR DESCRIBED WANT OP WATER CAPABILITIES FOR TRADE FISH WILD FOWL MIRAGE?SAND FOUNTAIN THE BUSH-TICK THE NARAS QUADRUPEDS SCARCE MEETING THE HOTTENTOTS THEIR FILTHY HABITS THE ALARUM THE TURNOUT DEATH OF A LION ARRIVAL AT 8CHEPPMANSDORF THE PLACE DESCRIBED MR. BAM MISSIONARY LIFE INGRATITUDE OF NATIVES MISSIONARY WAGONS. In the afternoon of the 20th of August, we found ourselves safely anchored at the entrance of Walfisch Bay. From the prevalence of southerly winds, this voyage seldom occupies VIEW OF WALFISCH BAT. more than a week; but, on the present occasion, we were double that time performing it. The first appearance of the coast, as seen from Walfisch Bay, is little calculated to inspire confidence in the traveler about to penetrate into the interior. A desert of sand, bounded only by the horizon, meets the eye in. every quarter, assuming, in one direction, the shape of dreary flats?in another, of shifting hillocks; whilst, in some parts, it rises almost to the height of mountains. l HARBOR DESCRIBED. 11 Walfisch Bay has been long known to Europeans, and was once hastily surveyed by Commodore Owen, of the Royal Navy. It is a very spacious, commodious, and comparatively safe harbor, being on three sides protected by a sandy shore. The only winds to which it is exposed, are N. and N. W.; but these, fortunately, are not of frequent occurrence. Its situation is about N. and S. The anchorage is good. Large ships take shelter under the lee of a sandy peninsula, the extremity of which is known to navigators by the name of Pelican Point. Smaller craft, however, ride safely within less than half a mile of the shore. The great disadvantage of Walfisch Bay is, that no fresh water can be found near th...