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seconded by the goodwill of the Missionaries resident ‘at 
Klaarwater, and their influence on the natives at the prin- 
cipal Stations, he was enabled to reach a part nearly two 
degrees of latitude in advance of his predecessors, and for 
a period of some years enjoyed the credit of being the most 
successful of the African travellers, whom he threw far be- 
hind him. Leaving old Litakou in latitude 27° 10’ and 
longitude 25° on the 15th of April, 1820, he took a north- 
east direction, and after an agreeable and safe journey of 
nineteen days reached Chuan or Kurreechane* (as it is 
called by him), in about latitude 24° 30’, and longitude 
28°, the capital of the Bamorutze tribe of Bechuana, pass- 
ing through the Battamachas, an intervening clan of the 
same great race. The habits of these people are so much 
alike, their language so similar, and have been so well de- 
scribed by Burchell, that it would be superfluous to repeat here 
what the traveller has recorded of them ; it however appears 
that the Bamorutzi are more advanced in civilization than 
their southern neighbours, a remark which thefe is reason 
to believe applies in an increasing degree to the various 
tribes of this widely-dispersed people, the farther they extend 
to the northward. Kurreechane, at the time of his visit, 
consisted of sixteen thousand inhabitants, who carried on a 
considerable trade with the adjacent nations, and -were par- 
ticularly expert in the manipulation of metals, in which 
their country abounds. The stream seen by Campbell in 
the vicinity of this place for some days previous to reaching 
it, took an easterly course, appearing to be the source 
of considerable waters, which, according to native testi- 
mony,.ran to the Indian Ocean. The country is very 
* Kurrichaine of the Map.—Ep, 
