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not improbable that Dr. Cowan himself might have been 
the victim thus ruthlessly hunted down as a monster. Dr. 
John Campbell, the Missionary, follows as the next traveller 
in a northern direction. His journey was performed in 1812, 
as far as Litakou, now in consequence of intestine troubles 
removed sixty miles beyond its former site. His route to 
that place was precisely the same as his predecessors ; but on 
his return he came down a northern branch of the Orange 
River, or Gareep, which he calls the Malalareen, now more 
known as the Hart River, a favourite, and the chief resi- 
dence of the Corana and Hottentot tribes. This stream 
eighty miles long is said to rise from a considerable lake, 
in which hippopotami are most abundant, in about latitude 
29°, and longitude 25° 26’. Dr. Campbell was also the first 
to visit the junction of that river with the Ky-Gareep, as 
well as the confluence of the Maap, Modder, or Muddy 
River ; another branch from the southward named by him 
the Alexander, and the Vaal Yellow, or Nu-Gareep, called 
by him the Cradock, with the principal stream the Gareep 
itself, the Great River, par excellence, according to the native 
designation, and the Orange River of Colonel Gordon; this 
main stream he traced along to the Missionary Institution of 
Pella, about half a degree from the coast, a desert route of 
four hundred miles, never before visited, but devoid of any- 
thing like interest, especially to an unscientific traveller. 
Burchell, an indefatigable, able, and generally-accomplished 
genius, visited the same country, at the same period as the 
last-mentioned gentleman, and made great acquisitions in 
various branches of natural history, in a region he considers 
entirely new. His intention was to have penetrated to Ben- 
guela or Loanedo, St. Paul, on the western coast, but the 
alarms and refusal of his people prevented the execution of 
this bold and extensive plan of exploration. On his arrival 
