IGS Geoyrfiphical Discoreri/ in thr African ('onlhieiil ,■ 



been duly appreciated, or were adequately rewarded, by his 

 philanthropic expediiion in this year in search of the survivors 

 of the wrecked crew and passengers of the shi^ just named, 

 added in extent more largely than any preceding traveller to 

 our knowledge of the countries to the eastward; and his inte- 

 resting journal, published by Captain Riou in 1792, gave a 

 tolerably correct, although slight, insight into the geography 

 of regions already traversed, but hitherto undescribed ; his 

 journey extended as far as the scene of the wreck, 300 miles 

 beyond the then Colonial boundary. 



Benjamin Stoi t, Captain of the American ship the " Her- 

 cules, who lost his vessel near the river Beka in 1795, p^"e- 

 tended to give a description of the country through which 

 himself, passengers, and crew safely proceeded to the Cape, the 

 valueless nature of which has already been remarked ; and in 

 1797 Mr. Barrow visited the Keisikamma river, from ita 

 source to the mouth, and furnished some very interesting 

 information of the Amakosa nation, with whom he passed some 

 time. 



In i^^O], the residence of that extraordinary man. Dr. Vatt 

 Diir. K^>»i'., in Caffraria, gave hira an excellent opportunity 

 ef *tiarw]fc'.c the manners of its inhabitants, and for acquiring 

 geograpi "jal information, of which, to some extent, he availed 

 himself; and Professor Lichtenstein, two years later, contri- 

 buted considerable and valuable stores to our previous know- 

 ledge of this part of the globe. 



The internal quarrels of the Caffers, and their aggi-essions 

 upon the Colonists of the Border, which had began to assume 

 a very serious aspect as far back as the year 1798, forced the 

 Colonial Government, in 1811, to resort to the determined 

 and vigorous measure of driving the intruding part of the 

 savage population, which had fixed itself eastward of the 

 Great Fish river, across that long-acknowledged boundary, 

 from which time up to 1819, a continual scene of warfare 

 ensued, and ended only in an invasion from the Colony during 

 the latter year, when the Troops and Burghers penetrated as 

 far as the Kei river, and a pretty accurate idea of the country, 

 and of its capabilities, as far as that stream, were then formed 

 by a survey made at the instance of the Government. 



(To be continued.') 



