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very feelingly, and therefore gives us a few pounds of rice and 

 sugir, value about 50 Rixdollars, for two huge elephant's teeth, 

 weighing nearly 2C0lbs. ; we are therefore obliged to let him 

 have one of our horses, upon his own terms, which reduces us 

 to travelling on foot altogether ;"' — "we are suffered to depart 

 barefooted and unprovided with the smallest comforts, of which 

 there are abundance in the hinds of the Governor," — "they 

 cannot be convinced we ever made our way here from the 

 Colony of the Cape through so many (as they call them) savage 

 tribes." 



In a former part of this number will be found some particu- 

 lars of the death of these unfortunate travellers, on their return 

 towards the Colony, collected from their Carter Interpreter 

 Jacob. .Mr. Cowie, it appears, died on the 4th of April 1829, 

 on which day he made his will, dated 45 miles S.W.of DelaGoa 

 Bay, shortly after, the faithful Hottentot seivant, Janlje, ex- 

 pired ; during the illness of this poor creature, the interpreter, 

 impeded by the trouble incident to the attentions required by 

 the sufferer, and anxious to escape from this pestilential region, 

 tried every thing in his power to induce Mr. Green to abandon 

 Jantje to his fate, but with that humanity which formed a pro- 

 jniucnt feature ia Green's character, he nobly declared, at the 

 foifeit of his life, that as long as his servant had breath he 

 would not desert him. Immediately after ihe death of Cowie, 

 Green appeared overwhelmed and stultified with grief; for him 

 was reserved a short but miserable survivorship; the wretched 

 consciousness of the loss of his only friend, and that his own 

 ^rave must be made in a foreign land, amidst strangers and 

 ravages, he quietly followed his unfortunate fellow travellers, 

 more it is apprehended from the effects of excessive nervous 

 excitement than from the ravages of disease. 



Mr. Cowie, who had held the situation of Surgeon of the 

 District of Albany, was a native of Scotland, and a gentleman 

 of greut professional skill; his manners were mild, feeling, and 

 popular, his disposition amiable and liberal, and he had an 

 unexlinguishable love for the cause of science; his engage- 

 ments of every kind were performed with the strictest punc- 

 tuality ; his information was extensive, and his person was re- 

 markable for neatness; at the period of his unfortunate death 

 he was about 32 years of age. 



Mr. Green was born in the county of Wexford, in Ireland, 

 about 1800 and he emigrated to the Cape of Good Hope 

 in 1821; soon after which he entered the Government 

 Civil Service, subsequently relinquishing it for a mercantile 

 career. He was of a strong athletic form, possessed of great 

 courage, and extraordinary agility, and a singular rencontre 



