HUTS BUILT IN A TREE. AD 
south, between the 25th and 26th degrees of lati- 
tude, and 29th and 30th degrees of longitude, takes 
a north-easterly course, and about one hundred 
miles from the ford, enters a high ridge of moun- 
tains. From hence, according to the account given 
by the natives, it flows into the sea, through the 
country of the Mantatees. It is about forty yards 
broad, the waters are rapid, clear, and good, and _ 
are well stocked with fish, which affords an article 
of food. This river is infested. by alligators, which 
are very formidable to the natives, by whom they 
are called “ Quaina.”” Sehoon and his party killed 
one measuring sixteen feet: in the stomach was 
found part of a trek-touw, a pair of shoes, and a-dog 
bitten in two. . About seventy miles to the eastward, 
the range of mountains takes a direction nearly north 
and south, their general height being about seven 
hundred feet. At the distance of fourteen miles to 
the south along the base of these mountains is a 
place called ‘“‘ Ongorutcie Fountain,” where there is 
a large tree containing seventeen conical — huts. 
These are used as dormitories, being beyond the 
reach of the lions, which, since the incursion of the 
Mantatees, when so many thousands of persons were 
massacred, have become very numerous in the 
neighbourhood, and destructive to human life. The 
branches of these trees are supported by forked sticks 
or poles, and there are three tiers or platforms on 
which the huts are constructed. The lowest is nine 
