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through their territory from the Cape to Walfish Bay, 

 and back. Mission stations were planted among 

 them, of which the two northernmost, numbered 

 1 and 5 on the map, were called Schepmansdorf and 

 Rehoboth respectively. The Kuisip river-bed, down 

 which water runs only once in every few years, and 

 ends in Walfish Bay, makes a northern limit to the 

 Namaquas, which they were apt to transgress. 



The Swakop river-bed, in which water runs every 



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year after the rains, and which enters the sea some 

 forty miles north of Walfish Bay, is the southern 

 limit of the Damaras. Two mission stations (2 and 

 3), called Otchimbingue and Barmen respectively, were 

 established on the Swakop. A third, marked 4 on 

 the map, had been established, but destroyed shortly 

 before my arrival by a murderous raid of Namaquas, 

 under Jonker, whose name will be found on the map, 

 and the position of whose home is shown by a 

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