164 CAPTAIN TUCKEY’S NARRATIVE. 
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The impossibility of procuring information to be at 
all depended on from the natives, respecting the course 
of the river or the nature of the country, proceeds equally 
from their want of curiosity, extreme indolence, and 
constant state of war with each other. Hence, I have never 
been able to procure a guide farther than from banza to 
banza, or at the utmost a day’s journey ; for at every banza 
we were assured that, after passing the next, we should get 
into the Bushmen’s country, where they would be in danger 
of being shot or kidnapped. ‘Thus at Cooloo, it was only 
