the coast plain, reaches the sea in St Sebastian Bay. From
its mouth the river is navigable by small vessels for from 30 to 40 m.
East of the Breede the following rivers, all having their rise on the
inner mountain chain, are passed in the order named:--Gouritz (200
m.),[1] Gamtoos (290 m.), Sunday (190 m.), Great Salt (230 m.), Kei (150
m.), Bashee (90 m.) and Umzimvuba or St John's (140 m.).

The Gouritz is formed by the junction of two streams, the Gamka and the
Olifants. The Gamka rises in the Nieuwveld not far from Beaufort West,
traverses the Great Karroo from north to south, and forces a passage
through the Zwarteberg. Crossing the Little Karroo, it is joined from
the east by the Olifants (115 m.), a stream which rises in the Great
Karroo, being known in its upper course as the Traka, and pierces the
Zwarteberg near its eastern end. Thence it flows west across the Little
Karroo past Oudtshoorn to its junction with the Gamka. The united
stream, which takes the name of Gouritz, flows south, and receives from
the west, a few miles above the point where it breaks through the coast
range, a tributary (125 m.) bearing the common name Groote, but known in
its upper course as the Buffels. Its headwaters are in the Komsberg. The
Touws (90 m.), which rises in the Great Karroo not far from the sources
of the Hex river, is a tributary of the Groote river. Below the Groote
the Gouritz receives no important tributaries and enters the Indian
Ocean at a point 20 m. south-west of Mossel Bay.

The Gamtoos is also formed by the junction of two streams, the Kouga, an
unimportant river which rises in the coast hills, and the Groote river.
This, _the_ Groote river of Cape Colony, has its rise in the Nieuwveld
near Nels Poort, being known in its upper course as the Salt river.
Flowing south-east, it is joined by the Kariega on the left, and
breaking through the escarpment of the Great Karroo, on the lower level
changes its name to the Groote, the hills which overhang it to the
north-east being known as Groote River Heights. Bending south, the
Groote river passes through the coast chain by Cockscomb mountain, and
being joined by the Kouga, flows on as the Gamtoos to the sea at St
Francis Bay.

Sunday river does not, like so many of the Cape streams, change its name
on passing from the Great to the Little Karroo and again on reaching the
coast plain. It rises in the Sneeuwberg north-west of Graaff Reinet,
flows south-east through one o