172 CAPTAIN TUCKEY’S NARRATIVE. 
etceteras on my return, if he would accompany me ; to which 
he at last acceded, all his countrymen attempting to deter 
him, by the idea of being killed and eaten by the bushmen. 
We reached banza Manzy (about nine miles north 
of Cooloo), at noon, the whole road being along a plateau. 
Here I was obliged to give four fathoms of baft for a pig of 
15lb. weight ; and after he was paid for, the people pretend- 
ing they could not catch him, I was obliged to direct him 
to be shot.. At four came to a very deep ravine (Sooloo en- 
vonzi), the bed of a vast torrent, covered with rocks, slate 
and quartz, in the hollows of which a considerable quantity 
of excellent water still remained, apparently since the rains. 
The sides of the ravine were thinly cloathed with wood, 
among which were trees perfectly straight from 80 to 100 
feet high, and 18 inches diameter, the wood of which was 
nearly the density, and had much the appearance, of oak ; 
they were the only trees we had yet seen of any utility. 
In this ravine we halted for the night, on learning that we 
could not reach Inga, and that there was no water between 
where we were and that place. The country we passed 
over this day would appear to be from 8 to 12 miles from 
the river, and is more hilly and barren than any we have 
yet gone over; but the same structure, on a larger scale, 
appears to prevail, as that of which I have given a -repre- 
sentation. 
