44 SCILOON AND M’LUCKIE. 
they are acquainted. The origin of this custom of 
repeating the names of animals is supposed to be 
found in the following practice :—when a Bechuana 
has succeeded in obtaining game, his wife invites her 
neighbours to partake in the pleasures of the feast, 
on condition that, when the period arrives for cul- 
tivating the ground, those who were guests and had 
shared in her hospitality should assist in working 
the soil. 
I deeply regretted that my state of health would 
not admit of my journey being extended, as I had 
proposed, to Litakou, which might have been reached 
on horseback in two days from Griqua Town. In- 
dependent of ifs importance as a Missionary Station, 
Litakou has become a place of considerable interest, 
from the circumstance of its being the last civilized 
spot to the northward of the Colony. From Litakou 
many exploring parties and speculative traders have 
ventured to penetrate the thickly populated regions 
lying beyond it. 
Messrs. Schoon and M’Luckie, in 1829, pene- 
trated to the eastward of Kurrichaine, which is 
situated about two hundred miles to the north-east 
of Litakou, and the following is a brief outline of 
their journey, containing some curious particulars of 
an inhabited tree, which they met with in that part 
of the country. 
East of Kurrichaine, or properly Chuan, they 
discovered the river Moriqua, which rises in the 
