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within a few miles of Graham's Town, which we 

 reached on the seventh day, the baggage-waggon 

 was accidentally upset in a deep hole by the road- 

 side, and the upper works completely broken, al- 

 though little injury occurred to the contents, beyond 

 the destruction of our chairs and crockery. 



Graham's Town is situated at the source of the 

 Cowie River, at a distance of six hundred and fifty 

 miles from Cape Town, and thirty from the nearest 

 point of the coast. It is well built, and contains 

 nearly seven hundred houses, with about three 

 thousand inhabitanls, principally English. Here 

 we made further purchases, and with difficulty 

 obtained two additional horses, residing four days at 

 Parke's excellent hotel. We also made a valuable 

 friend in the person of Captain Stanford, of the 27th 

 Foot, who introduced us to two intelligent men, 

 David Hume and Eobert Scoon, both of whom had 

 performed several journeys into the interior, for the 

 purpose of trading in ivory, and who afforded us 

 much valuable information. Hume provided us 

 with a new driver, a pensioned private of the Cape 

 Rifle Corps, minus a right eye and a fore-finger. 

 proud of his ancestry as a Hottentot, and glorying 

 in the name of Andries Africander. This highly 

 favoured individual had already made no less than 

 five trips with Hume and others into Moselekatze's 

 country, and besides being well acquainted with that 

 Chief, possessed a fair smattering of the English and 

 Sichuana languages. He was, moreover, according 

 to his own account, a crack shot, an intrepid elephant 



