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from 11 p M, till 3 a.m. a moderate thimderstorm took place, accompanied by 

 some violent gusts of wind, but little rain. 



Finally, I have to remark that the barometer stood at 29° 98', and did not 

 show any fluctuation during the phenomenon. The narrative of the phe- 

 nomenon taking place on the afternoon I have drawn up from materials fur- 

 nished by pilots and otlier people at this time on the beach, several of whom 

 were exposed to considerable danger by the sudden, unexpected rising of the 



water ; but of the repe 



myself an eye-witness. 



E. Harmsen, m.d. 



4. Journey from Origstadt to Delagoa Bay, ^c. By Mr. Coqxjl 



Communicated by Thomas Baines, Esq., f.r.g.s. 



March 4, 1846. — I left Origstadt with two waggons, our party consisting of 

 five white persons and three Kafirs. We passed at first through a bold 

 mountainous country, with little or no game, and on the 10th began the descent 

 of the Drakensberg, which, running nearly parallel to the coast, stretches from 

 the south to an unknown di^ance in a northerly direction. From the land 

 there is no perceptible ascent, but the face toward the sea is exceedingly steep 

 and bushy, and though we commenced early, the day was spent before we 

 reached the bottom. 



We crossed a fine river, name unknown, flowing n.n.e. along the base of th-e 

 range, and the next day reached the kraal of the Kafir chief " Mysole," a fine, 

 intelligent-looking man, who for a couple of heifers supplied us with three 

 guides, directing them to point out a path whioh he said was not infested by 

 the poisonous fly tsetse. 



We followed an old track of the emigrant farmers a day farther, and then 

 turned to the right or south. In three or four days more w^e crossed the 

 " Omguini," a stream 400 yards wide, rising in the Drakensberg and flowing 

 sluggishly to the north-east : its current, indeed, was almost imperceptible. 

 Numbers of canoes were plying on its surface. 



We now passed through a hilly and thickly- wooded country, through which 

 we had to cut our way with the axe — in one jjlace particularly for about five 

 miles without intermission. In four days we crossed the second source of the 

 Kamati, which rising also in the Drakensberg, joins the Omgnini at the same 

 place where another river flows into it from the northward, and the three then 

 bending south, empty their waters into Delagoa Bay under the name of the 

 Manice, which is not, as Captain Harris supposed, the Limpopo, nor has it any 

 connexion either with that or with the Elephant River. The broad river of 

 Triechard was very probably the junction of these three. Here some of the 

 Kafirs caught the tsetse or fly, and as the guides had evidently failed in 

 finding us a safe passage, we pushed on as speedily as possible to save our 

 cattle from its deadly sting. The country became now more open, the flats 

 were diversified with clumps of bush and a few hills, and tenanted by troops 

 of elephants, one of which we shot, and multitudes of buffaloes, quaggas, gnoos, 

 and nearly every other species of game that in all probability had never before 

 been fired at. 



About the 27th we found a large timber forest, with several beautiful springs 

 of clear water, the first we had seen from Origstadt. On the 3ist we arrived 

 in the vicinity of Delagoa Bay, somewhat to the southward of the settlement 

 of Lorenzo Marques, and after crossing the Mattel, a stagnant muddy marsh 

 rather than a river, we reached the settlement on the 2nd of April and out- 

 spanned on the beach opposite., 



The village and fort are situated on a sandy hillock, surrounded at spring- 



