English: Voortrekker information board: Commandant Andries Hendrik Potgieter undertook a reconnaissance trip in 1844 to investigate the possibility of a trade route to Delagoa Bay (now Maputo). The wagons could not negotiate the steep passes and were left behind while Potgieter and a party of horsemen went on alone. They stayed away so long that the party left behind began to fear that they had perished. They called the river next to their camp the Treur River (River of Sadness) and started on the return journey. After a few days Potgieter and his party overtook them, and amid much rejoicing, the river beside which they were outspanned was called the Blyde River (River of Happiness).