in Southern Africa 40.'- 



,s are enabled to form it into bars ; it is picked up in 

 round lumps from the surface. 



30. Travelled E. 12 miles, to Moriqua River; river rune 

 X. by N.E., when at about 100 miles from the ford, it enteri 

 a high ridge of mountains, and the natives say thence to the 

 sea, through the country of the Mantatees ; it rises about 50 

 miles from the Drift S.E., forming a great elbow , its waters 

 are rapid, clear, and good ; is about 40 feet broad at the ford; 

 runs deep; well stocked with fish, which the natives eat; in- 

 fested by alligators, which are numerous; Scoon and party 

 killed one measuring 16 feet; very destructive to the natives, 

 who call them Quaina; in the stomach of the one killed was 

 found part ©f a trek-touw, a pair of shoes, and a dog bitten in 

 two. 



Scoon has traced this stream from its source to near the 

 mountains already alluded to, for a distance of 150 miles; 

 timber is plentiful, especially at its sources, where he saw 

 distant hills to the southward, which he conjectured to be at 

 the head of the Yellow River, a fact since proved; down the 

 river about 90 or 100 miles, he was last year at a Barrisaamo 

 Town, where there was at least 200 acres cultivated with In- 

 dian corn, standing as high as a man on horseback. The 

 Moriqua is generally about 20 feet deep, and overflows its 

 banks in winter ; its northerly course, before it enters the 

 mountains, is through extensive plains, diversified by a feu- 

 small conical hills. 



31. Travelled E. Smiles, to a dry channel of the river 

 Leutlecan ; passed a deserted town of the Bamattatees, who 

 have fled from the country destroyed by the Wanketz and 

 Morutze nations; this, in former times, has been the "Carron" 

 of the interior, the great foundery ; iron and copper ores are 

 most abundant here. 



The mountains now run in one ridge E. and YV. to the south 

 of the travellers route, through which the Moriqua finds a 

 northerly course. 



August 3. Travelled E. 18 miles to Cutongeit Rirer, it 

 runs north, but takes its course, as do all the rivers to be 

 named as far as the Waritcie River, in the mountains to the 

 S. of our Journalists route. Passed the Tolaan River, here is 

 an old town of the Bamasaans, destroyed bv a very powerful 

 tribe residing very far to the north. 



4. Travelled E. 20 miles, to river Macanthe, passed the 

 Bapeere tribe of Bechuana. 



5, Travelled E. 28 miles, to Waritcie River, same size as 

 Moriqua, into which the natives say it runs. The Zulo chief 

 MalacaUie sends messengers to the travellers, with a present 

 of two more oxen 



B. Travelled S.E. 6 miles; the range of mountains here 



