152 LORENNE NOT THE EAST CAPE. 



we then resumed our journey. On espying Lorenne 

 we also saw two other clusters of huts, about two 

 miles' distance lying between each. At Lorenne, the 

 foremost of the three villages, we found Yaneenga's 

 brother living, and our guides desu'ed therefore to 

 remain with him. To this we could not object, but 

 as the day was yet young, we went on in charge of 

 Belconta to the furthest range of seven huts, w^here 

 he held his dwelling. 



The necessity of constant watchfulness in driving 

 was impressed upon me to day, by a rather forcible 

 lesson. Without heeding the road, I permitted my 

 sledge to overrun one of my dogs, which accident 

 will often lame them, and in trying to disentangle its 

 harness, I was bitten in the hand by the poor beast, 

 which in its pain inflicted a severe wound. 



Very slight observation confirmed our former view 

 respecting the erroneous identification of Lorenne with 

 East Cape ; that question was soon settled, and w^e 

 became very anxious to rea«ii the next point, which, 

 as we could see nothing beyond it, might possibly be 

 the much-desired position : this, we were told, was 

 called Yandangah, with a ko-ee-mak (harbour) 

 contiguous ; and the continuous trending of the 

 coast to the eastward led us to entertain sanguine 

 expectation that it woidd prove the fixed termination 



