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have already been introduced into a known book, and save 
us the trouble of identifying such things as Matchappees and 
Bachapins. ‘Those who are curious however in regard to 
exactness of sounds ought to ascertain the local extraction 
and nurture of the writer. A scottish hand will trace sounds 
by different marks from those employed by an Englishman, 
of which there are many instances in Missionary records. 
An instance of inattention to the powers of a foreign alpha- 
bet occurs in No. III. of the Journal above referred to, 
where a chief is presented to us as reigning at Mombas 
under the title of Xeque, this being obviously the Portuguese 
version of the common Arabic title Sheik. Another source of 
uncertainty is presented in Captain Owen’s book, where the 
Caffer territory is indicated as divided into provinces under 
titles which are obviously the names of the chiefs lately 
ruling them, this may perhaps account for the changes of 
names which in old maps are found sown thickly over the 
great blank of interior Africa *. 
Mr. Chase, the Honorary Secretary of the Committee 
for conducting the expedition, a gentleman of considerable 
talent and literary attainment, has drawn up a concise and 
able account of the progress of discovery to the north and 
eastward of the Cape Colony up to the period of the de- 
parture of this expedition, which was published in the South 
African Quarterly Journal in Cape Town; and as the circu- 
lation has been principally confined to the limits of the 
Colony, I shall take the liberty of laying the following in- 
teresting extracts before the reader :— 
* South African Quarterly Journal for April, 1834. 
