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pauperism, famine frequently stalks with its gaunt form through 

 the kraals of his people, and yet the Tambookie, unlike the 

 CafFre, seldom if ever crosses the colonial boundary to abstract 

 any of the numerous herds, which feed within his very sight ; 

 but when pressed by hunger or alarmed by danger, he comes' 

 in peace, tells his woe-begone tale to the Colonist, is fed, 

 advised, and instructed, and returns the friend of the white 

 man. Such has been the state of the relations between our 

 remoter Colonists and this Tribe for a very long period, while 

 that of the southern neighbourhood, civilised and savage, has 

 been one of mutual encroachment and sanguinary contest. 



I have pointed out the principal features of the two foregoing 

 divisions of the country separately, because occupied by two 

 great political communities— the Amakosse and Amatymbae 

 people. As there are beyond these to the frontier of the Zulo 

 power no longer any considerable societies of men nationally 

 bound together, like the beforementioned people, but a mere 

 succession of numerous but small and broken hordes, the wreck 

 of formerly populous tribes subdued by the Zulo tyrant and 

 conqueror Chaka, and other depredators upon a lesser scale 

 set into motion by his example, I am obliged to describe the 

 intermediate country according to its natural divisions ; and in 

 doing this I shall generally assume the larger rivers as bound- 

 aries of Tracts or Cantons, of which I presume to give as brief 

 and concise an account as possible. 



III. In the first place, then, I take from the Oaibashee river 

 to the Ojizi:\ivooboo, the St. John's river of the charts. 



This tract will contain about 7, '200 square miles ; it is fertile 

 in an extraordinary degree, highly picturesque, well watered 

 by numerous rivers and copious streams constantly flowing. It 

 is, however travelled over with great difficulty, and loss of 

 time, being intersected every few miles by deep ravines. 



The Kogha, Impaakoo, Omtata, Omtongala, the two Om- 

 gazis and the Omzimvooboo, water this extensive region, the 

 first of which is a well supplied stream. 



The Impaakoo, a smaller river, is remarkable from its waters 

 passing into the ocean through a singular arched aperture in 

 the rocks, which has been named by Commodore Owen, when 

 surveying the coast, under the appropriate name of " the hole in 

 the wall." It is situated in lat. 30. b., and Ion. 29. 8. 



The Omtata rises from two distantly separated sources in the 

 great range of mountains, collecting tribute from numerous 

 streams, and combines with the sea in about lat. 31. 5., and 

 Ion 29. 15. It has a tide-way of eight miles, and appears to 

 be open for shipping. Upon its western sources it was that the 

 marauder Matuana was attacked by Major Dundas, and 

 p-ithin a month afterwards bv Colonel Somerset in 1828, and 



