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Fhe Ximtlanga river, upon which Nobambe, the Zoolah 

 Capital, is situated, is the south-western and principal tributary 

 of the St. Lucie-river: it has three others, the Volosie Imtlopie 

 or White Volosie, the Volosie Innamie or Black Volosie, and 

 the Volosie, which is the easternmost source; these having all 

 united at about 35 miles from the sea, form the Omvolosie or 

 Great Volosie, designated in the maps as the St Lucia. The 

 ford of the Black Volosie, where our travellers crossed on the 

 "il» March, was 100 yards wide, much infested by alligators; 

 the banks marshy anil thickly lined with fig trees full of good 

 fruit, with trunks six feet in diameter; like the Ficus Indica, 

 they possess the quality of throwing down their branches 

 and fixing them by roots into the earth. Buffaloes, and 

 Elephants especially, were numerous. After wading the Vo- 

 losie and proceeding through a hilly country, they passed a 

 long defile in the Ingammanya or Black Tiger Mountains, and 

 crossed the Morice and Sordwana rivers on the 9th; game in- 

 creased in quantity, and they here met with a new species of 

 Tiger,* most ferocious in its habits, and totally different from 

 the colonial kind; Gnoos, Elands, and Koedoos, were of fre- 

 quent occurrence. The Omkoosie river, the next crossed, 

 and which is the same as the " Gold Downs river" of the 

 Coast Maps, is rapid and about 300 feet broad ; on its banks 

 they killed a large Boa Constrictor, and after their bivouac at 

 this stream on the 10th of March, they skirted a large range of 

 mountains called the Bombo, running nearly north and south; 

 on the 1 lth, keeping close to the base of these elevations, and 

 on the western side, they waded the Pongola river.f which 

 passes through the range and joins the Mapoota; the country 

 was swampy, covered with mimosas, and consisted of great 

 plains. They ascended the Bombo Mountains on the 12th, and 

 on their summits, diversified with wood, hill, and dale, they fell 

 in with many natives and much cultivated land ; here they 

 were attempted to be dissuaded from proceeding, by the chiefs 

 who had already sent for their wizard doctor from a distance 

 in consequence of the approaching annual visit of the Delagoa 

 fever, which they stated generally to reach to this chain; 

 but having got thus far the travellers were indisposed to re- 

 linquish the great object of all their preceding toil. On the 

 14th, with very considerable difficulty, they descended this 

 last hilly barrier between them and the Portuguese settlement, 

 forded the Ongovoomo-river, and reached Undolomba's kraal, 

 a petty chief of a tribe called Unnumie, under the Sovereignty 



• Probably Panther. 



t The Pongola rircr gives name lo ihe little slate of Pongclly, mentioned 

 by the Natal Officer iu the " lli-marlcs on Ue la Uoa Bay " in our No. II. 

 page 133. 



