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the faculty of removing at pleasure, from his shoes covering his 

 toes, and his footstep leaving no impression of them, it wa3 

 imagmed he was devoid of those appendages ; the singular 

 ■weapon with which he was armed (a gun), vomiting out fire, 

 smoke, and thunder, and the creature on which he was 

 mounted (a horse), an animal never before seen, caused 

 additional dread, and he was generally shunned by the natives 

 as a being not of this earth. Some kraals killed cattle on his 

 approach as a peace-oft'ering, and retired, leaving him to 

 consume the sacrifice, and, on returning to them, they state 

 they found deposited upon the slaughtered beasts, beads and 

 other trinkets ; others honored him as a wizard, or a creature 

 armed with celestial powers. — -At the Omtonogale, or Fisher's 

 river, having attended Chaka's predecessor, Tingiswaio, thus 

 far, the stranger proceeded towards the sea, when entering the 

 Quabie tribes, to the westward, he was murdered by order of 

 its Chief, Pagatwaio, who conceived him to be some unnatural 

 animal. The tradition of the visit of this individual, of whom 

 little more of a determinate nature beyond what has been related* 

 could be collected, is constantly referred to by the Natalese, 

 and the following song, made by the Quabies, upon Tingiswaio, 

 who took the traveller for some distance in his train, and 

 whose conquest, as has been said, was assisted by the alarm of 

 this awe-inspiring auxiliary, is still sung upon festivals; the 

 first words are intended to imitate the clatter of a horse's 

 hoofs, and it runs thus : — 



" Ite cata cata, wa mooka 

 \Va mooka may 

 Wa mooka 

 Na iiijomarne:" 



•which is literally translated — 



Clatter clatter, he is going, 



He goes with them. 



He is going ; 



He goes with (a horse or) speed. 



The time, the equipment, the anxiety of the stranger to 

 reach the ocean shores, render it very probable that this might 

 be one of the survivors of the Expedition of 1808 ; and if the 

 circumstance of this person's having performed an operation, 

 which is also related of him on native testimony, upon the knee 

 of a Chief named Punjarn be correct, it is not improbable but 

 Dr. Cowan himself might have been the victim thus ruthlessly 

 hunted down as a monster. 



Dr. John Campbell, the Missionary, follows as the next 

 traveller in a northern direction; his journey was performed in 

 I8I2, as far as Lcettakoo, now, in consequence of intestine 

 troubles, removed 60 miles beyond its former site. His route 



