DUcovery in the African Continent. 1C3 



plirty, and the conduct of the Bawanketz, forced their consent, 

 and they proceeded along with a large body of native warriors 

 on a most interesting journey, which afforded full scope to 

 observe their method of waging war, and their mode of supply- 

 ing their commissariat, to the last nientioned place 50 miles 

 in advance, where they drove out the marauders, who were 

 panic struck at the sound of guns. *The country passed to this 

 place is very woody, water plentiful, but no running streams 

 were seen ; it is apparently very elevated, and doubtless forms a 

 part of the separating ridge, or central plateau dividing the 

 eastern and western wa.ters. On the east, at a trifling distance, 

 a range of lotfy mountains, stretches in a diagonal from N. W. 

 to S. E., named by the natives Le Roopa and was reported to 

 be very rich in iron and copper, this divides the Baquin and 

 Bawanketz from the Baraorutzi nations; the range may be 

 represented on the map as commencing in lat. 23. 40, and long. 

 26. 3o, and proceeding to lat. 24. 50, and long. 27. 20, their 

 farther extent being unknown. A somewhat lower ridge rises 

 on the western side and the river, upon the head of which 

 Litabaruba is situated, flows towards the north-east. The 

 language, manners, and habits of the people are the same as 

 the other Bechuanas. 



The next journey of importance in these regions was that of 



Messrs. Scoox and M'Luckie, in 1829, of whose Expedition 



an outline has already appeared in the fourth number of this 



Journal. This trading party leaving the Missionary station at 



Bootschnap, situated on the Hart river, near the confines of the 



country seized from the natives by the mixed race or Griquas, 



and now denominated by courtesy, Guiqualand, in about 



I lat. 27. 50, and long. 25. 5, commenced a route in the same 



[direction as that of Mr. Campbell, in 1820, frequently inter- 



tsecting it, and verifying many of the points laid down by 



[that individual. In about lat. 24. 50, and long. 27. 40, 



somewhere below the Philip's Fountain of Campbell, the 



jarty took a direct easterly route, and after proceeding about 



J40 miles, discovered a large river, called by the natives 



[Moriqua: at the ford or drift they crossed, it was very deep, 



fand 40 yards wide. This stream, which they traced nearly 



ip to its source, and for 50 miles down towards its estuary, 



rises in the south between the 25th and 26th degree of 



latitude, and 29th and 30th longitude, first takes a N. W. 



:ourse to the ford just mentioned, and then sweeps to the 



E., and passes through a large opening in an elevated 



range of mountains, running nearly due W. and E. under 



the Tropic. The natives stated their ignorance of the 



Icountry beyond these mountains, but they understood that it 



[was inhabited by men with long hair, robbers by profession, and 



