Messrs. Cowie and Green's Expedition. 57 



and of a green colour, subsides to the bottom. It seems to me 

 probable, that failures may frequently have been owing to the 

 presence of this substance in the ointment, and that therefore 

 care should be taken that no rancid matter be used. lis pre- 

 sence may be readily detected by melting a poition of the oint- 

 ment and keeping it fluid for a few minutes, when it will be 

 observed at the bottom. 



Notice respecting the Expedition overland from tltc 

 Colony of the Cape of Good /lope to the Portuguese 

 Settlement ut JJe la Goa Bay, btj Messrs. Cowie and 

 Green, in 1829, referred to at page 32 of the present 

 Number. By Mr. J. C. CHASE, Member of* the South 

 African Institution. 



Previous to 1828 no European foot had ever traversed tli^ 

 entire line of country between the Colony of the Cape of Good 

 Hope and the Bay "of De la Goa. In that year John Cane, 

 a mariner, an individual of lingular enterprise and great phy- 

 sical strength, who had joined the interesting and adventurous 

 party under Lieutenants King and Farewell, at their establish- 

 ment at Port Natal, was dispatched by Chaka, the Sovereign 

 of the Zoolah or Vatwah Nation, to the Colony, having a short 

 period before visited, on fool, the Portuguese Settlement at 

 JJe la Goa; the want of writing materials however prevented 

 liim from keeping a record of his journey, but his memory, 

 extraordinarily retentive, furnished him with the means of im- 

 parting considerable information respecting the countries be- 

 tween these two places. To him therefore belongs the credit of 

 being the first person whose adventurous spirit connected these 

 remote portions of the African Continent together. 



About the year 1726, a Lieutenant Monas is said to have 

 penetrated from De la Goa to Natal, but his diary has hitherto 

 been sought for without success. That place, as well as the 

 Colony, had also been reached overland by several paitiis 

 ■wrecked at different periods on the coasts of Caffraria, of Natal 

 and Fumos, but few have left any or a credible narrative of the 

 regions and tribes through which they passed ; until therefore 

 the notes of the travellers Messrs. Cowie and Green, of whose 



A'ii/r. Tlic Mih*tnnrc of Ihif Notice appeared originally in Mr.Giiig't 

 " Sown African Directory " for is^o. 



