ANCIENT NA TIVE B UILDING. 1 7 5 
rough craggy kopjes, there with small open park-like 
glades — which makes at irregular intervals so pleas- 
ing a change in this otherwise little-varying land- 
scape, and compensates, where it occurs, for much 
that is uninteresting. 
The Tati, itself one of those rivers which become 
large so near their source, was again itself shortly 
left behind, the waggons trekking forward in a 
direction nearly north. On June 1 7th, a few miles 
further on, another river was crossed, and the 
following entry made in the traveller's Journal : — 
" Jtme ijtk. — Fine morning, after a mild starry 
night; warm day. Inspanned at 6.20 a.m. I rode 
across the veldt to the right ; grass very wet. Saw 
a small buck and three sassaybi, but they got my 
scent. Going in a direction generally north, I struck 
a deep sandy river, with plenty of water-holes in it, 
and banks steep and rocky in places ; crossed it, 
and kept down it till I found the waggons, which had 
crossed it and outspanned perhaps a mile and a half 
further down. Just before reaching the waggons 
(8.20 A.M.), I came to a most singular building, built 
on a little isolated kopje in the midst of the level 
tree -studded veldt, but with other kopjes near. 
There has been an excellently-built wall running 
round the sides of the kopje, and a regular entrance 
into it. The boys say it was built in old times by 
the ancestors of the present race of Makalakas, and 
was the king's residence. No white man, they say, 
helped to build it. It is not seen from the waggon- 
road. 
