Discovery in the African Continent. 1'95 



almost every part of CafFerland, even 120 miles beyond Port 

 Natal, to the kraal of Dhigaan, the present Chieftain of the 

 Zulo people, with that of Dr. Smith, who, accompanied by 

 Lieut. Edie, of the 98th Regiment, made a scientific journey 

 to Natal in 1832, — have afforded us a tolerably well defined 

 knowledge of the outlines of the geography of this portion of 

 the African Continent. 



Having thus gone through an account of the progress of disco- 

 very along the shores of the south-eastern coast, I proceed to give 

 an outline of their Geography, and at the same time some idea 

 of their respective population ; but a sketch of this kind can 

 only touch upon the more prominent parts of a subject of such 

 magnitude and interest. 



I. The first great political division of the interior, next to the 

 colonial limits, is that under the Amakosoe Tribes or Gaffers 

 Proper, bounded from the Colony by the Keiskamma river on 

 the west ; by part of the Ombashee river on the east ; by the 

 Ocean to the south ; and on the north by the secondary 

 range of Mountains, a subordinate ridge to that vast chain 

 proceeding from the Colony, and keeping an average distance 

 of about 100 miles from the coast, and which, there is every 

 reason to believe, (running behind Delagoa, as far as which it 

 has been traced,) joins the Lupata range at the Zambezi river, 

 whose existence has not only been doubted, but absolutely 

 denied. It is well watered, and the following are its chief 

 streams. 



The 'Keiskamma — with rather a short course — rises in the 

 Winterberg Mountain, which is snow-capped for several months 

 in the year, and the parent of rivers which reach both the 

 southern coast and the Orange river, and through that extensive 

 drain the Atlantic Ocean, — falls into the sea about lat. 33. 12, 

 long 27. 40., and appears to be open to navigation ; its shores 

 at its estuary possess every material for building, as well as 

 every other advantage for the formation of a civilised establish- 

 ment. 



The 'KoxcAY OR Buffalo river is the next in order, and of 

 equal length with the Keisikamma ; a Wesleyan Missioji Station 

 of some promise is situated upon one of its branches ; its mouth 

 is about 20 miles from that of the Keisikamma. 



The GooxoBiE or Bramblebkruy river follows next in mag- 

 nitude, and IS about 20 miles beyond the last mentioned. 



The 'KwELEGiiA blends its waters with the ocean 20 miles in 

 advance ; it is a considerable river, and equal to the Keisi- 

 kamma. 



The 'Kneiba or 'Kei, the White Krys river of the maritime 

 charts, fall into the sea, in lat. 32. 35. long. 28, 30. ; it s a 



