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sources of the Caledon and Muprita rivers, ascended the 

 CafTrarian Mountains and advanced as far as lat. 23° south, 

 having made large botanical and other collections, and laid 

 down his route with great accuracy. Mecham and Jones 

 were the first to penetrate with waggons overland to Delagoa 

 Bay, and Captain Gardiner arrived within a short distance 

 of the sources of the Orange River. In 1836, Captain Sir J. 

 Alexander, in the employ of the Royal Geographical Society of 

 London, during a route of about 1500 miles, crossed the Orange 

 River, 100 miles from its mouth, proceeded north as far as 

 Nabis, thence north-west, and crossed the Hoop or Great Fish 

 River in lat. 27°. He then turned north to the Kei Kaap 

 or Great Flat, through the Bull mouth Pass to the Great 

 Desert, finally reaching the Kuisip and Walfish Bay, on the 

 west coast. He next ascended the Kuisip 200 miles in the 

 interior, and finally returned to the Cape. 



" The Wild Sports of Southern Africa, being the narrative 

 of an expedition from the Cape of Good Hope through the 

 territories of the chief Moselekatse to the tropic of Capricorn, 

 by Captain William Cornwallis Harris, was published in 

 1839. In 1842, appeared the interesting work by Robert 

 Moffat, the veteran missionary and father-in-law of Dr Living- 

 stone, descriptive of his labours and scenes in Southern Africa. 

 In 1845, the late Lieutenant Ruxton, since better known 

 for his bold explorations in North America, visited Walfish 

 Bay; and in 1849, Mr Francis Galton proceeded to the 

 same spot in company with Mr C. J. Andersson. From thence 

 he continued eastwards as far as long. 21°, without having 

 succeeded in reaching Lake Ngami, which was subsequently 

 more successfully performed by Mr Andersson, who not only 

 reached the Lake, but ascended the Teoghe River to the north 

 of it. Mr Galton travelled also as far as Odonga, in about 

 lat. 18°, south, not far from the Nourse River, which remains 

 still unexplored 1 . The Five Years of a Hunters Life in 



1 Messrs Stahn, Rath and Green have since penetrated to the north 

 of Damara Land, where they were attacked by the Ovampo and com- 



