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Bastards, a French army, and numerous other absurdities, 
-were propagated, and as readily believed, and they infused 
the more fright, from the circumstance of the greater part 
of the male population being absent on the great Com- 
mando or military expedition to drive the Caffers out of the 
Zunreveldt on the south-eastern part of the Colony, and 
two hundred miles from the scene of the exploit of this 
peaceable visitant. Having reinforced his party, he returned 
to Griqua Town by a new course, a little more to the east- 
ward of his former route, along the Zekoe River, and the 
New Gareep or Black River, and by which he visited the 
remarkable passage of the stream named by him the Nar- 
rows, where that. magnificent river is at once straitened by 
rocky. promontories. to a width of a few yards, through 
which it foams impatient of the unaccustomed obstruction, 
and bounds from it with a fury and grandeur, the splendid 
and terrific scene of which requires to be seen to be adequately 
appreciated. ‘The importance of this hazardous exploration 
of Burchell is evident from the fact, that the remotest Boor’s 
or farmer’s residence behind Graaff Reinet. was then at 
the Groote Tafelberg, only seventy miles beyond it, and that 
now the whole country to the Great River itself is occupied 
by them. From Klaarwater or Griqua Town, Burchell set 
out on his journey to the interior, visiting the beautiful source 
of the Kuruman, which leaps at-once from its rocky fount a 
perfect river. The city of Litakun or Litakou, of which 
and its inhabitants, whose manners and habits are a perfect 
type of the race inhabiting the interior, to that yet to be 
discovered, and probably remote line, which separates them 
from the negroes, he has given by far the best and most 
complete account yet penned. The Moshowa River, a 
stream. joining the Kuruman, and afterwards along «with 
