Discovery in the African Continent. 1^5 



tlie name of Kamhanni, whose highest peak just above Leetta- 

 koo I would rudely estimate at about 1500 feet, runs in a direct 

 northerly range to the Chue lake, where it is called, by emin- 

 ence, among the natives, Maadje, or the Mountain, has been 

 supposed by some geographers to be the commencement of the 

 Lupata range, but which, by recent observers, has been found 

 to be incorrect, for, after proceeding to a short distance be- 

 yond the lake, they suddenly fall of}', and entirely disappear. 

 The length of this chain, including the subsidiary hills, out 

 of which it appears to grow, may be estimated at 200 miles. 

 From Klaarwater, to his extreme point of observation, the hills, 

 mountains, and rocks, Burchell states to be composed of 

 sand-stone incumbent upon a vast, even, and underanged bed 

 of lime-stone, which he considers primitive. 



The route of this intelligent traveller, beyond his predeces- 

 sors, covers a space of nearly one degree of latitude and 

 longitude, His geographical observations have given con- 

 siderable precision to our knowledge of the interior, by deter- 

 mining the^exact situation of certain points, and his geological 

 remarks have thrown much light on the physical constitution of 

 the transgariepine regions. But the brightest laurels in the 

 Avreath awarded to him by public opinion are those for his 

 contributions to natural history. 



Dr. Campbell re-vlsited the scene of his former labours in 

 1819. Without any pretensions to science (unfortunately) but 

 seconded by the good will of the Missionaries resident at 

 Klaarwater, and their influence on the natives at their principal 

 station, he was enabled to reach a part nearly two degrees of 

 latitude in advance of his predecessors, and for a period of 

 some years enjoyed the credit of being the most successful of 

 South African travellers, whom he threw far behind him. 

 Leaving old Leettakoo in lat. 27- 10. and long. 25, on the 15th 

 April, 1820, he took a N. E. direction ; and after an 

 agreeable and safe journey of 19 days, reached Ciiuan or 

 KuRREECHANE (as it is called by him), in about lat 24. 30. 

 and long. 28. the capital of the Bamorutze tribe of Bechuana, 

 passing through the Batammachas, an intervening clan of the 

 same great race. — The habits of these people are so much 

 alike, their language so similar, and have been so well 

 described by Burchell, that it would be superfluous to repeat 

 here what that traveller has recorded of them ; it however 

 appears that the Bamorntzi are more advanced in civilizatiou 

 than their southern neighbours, a remark which there is reason 

 to believe applies in an increasing degree to the various tribes 

 of this widely dispersed people the farther they extend to the 

 northward. Kurreechane, at the time of his visit, consisted of 

 10,000 inhabitants, who canicd on a considerable trade Avith 



