Fifth Journey (MS 107/4)
29th January 1786
transcription
[page 31]
[29th January 1786]
29
ging op een berg om na de coers en weg te soeken, sagen dat verkeert opgereden waaren vertrokken weer terug uit de cloof en arriveerde door vele draayen van de Nabbé cloof, (n.b. kwam hier in myn vorig pad na berevaley)
daar wy de Scheidpaal van Swellendams en Stellenbos district vonden na vier uren
by P: van der Merven.
struisvogel fontein.
[page 31a]
Schoon weer tamelyk z.o. lugtje.
term 70 86 80
translation
[page 31]
[29th January 1786]
29
Went up a mountain in order to seek out our direction and the road. Saw that we had gone astray. Left of the kloof once more, and after going through the many winding turns of the Nabbékloof -- where I encountered my earlier road to Beerevlei -- arrived after four hours at Piet van de Merwe’s Struijsvogelfontein where we found the boundary-pole between the Swellendam and Stellenbosch districts.
[page 31a]
Fine weather. A fair south-east breeze.
Thermometer: 70-86-80.