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proclamation for opening the trade, and who visited the 
country in 1825,) having reached the Chue Lake or Honing 
Viley, the extreme point of Burchell, where I shall there- 
fore take them up, started thence in a north-east direction 
about eighty miles to the westward of Campbell’s route, and 
succeeded in gaining a town of the Baquana tribe of Be- 
channas, called Letabaruba, within about forty miles of the 
tropic of Capricorn, and about long. 26° 30’, penetrating a 
country from the before-named lake, the great haunt of wild 
animals, and of the stately giraffe, covered with a lofty but 
scattered bush supplied with small springs, where nume- 
rous Bechanna outposts were established, they crossed the 
river Moloppo, discovered by Campbell in about lat. 25° 40’, 
and long. 24° 50’, one hundred and twenty miles below the 
point where he passed the stream. From this they pro- 
ceeded to a river supplied by scanty springs called the Loo- 
rolani, lat. 25° 15’, long. 25° 25’, through a track abound- 
ing with game, especially the white rhinoceros, an animal 
almost unknown to naturalists. From this point he pro- 
ceeded to Siloqualalie, in about lat. 25°, and long. 26° 10’, 
the new capital of the Bawankets, Melita, its former city, 
having been destroyed, and its soverign Makkabba killed 
by the Mantatees, as already related. Between the Loo- 
ralani River, and the town of Siloqualalie, a distance of fifty 
miles, were fine open plains, diversified by low conical hills, 
the soil a deep red sand, the springs weak, and situated in 
a deep calcareous soil. At Silolqualalie the traders were 
well received by Sibegho, the successor of Makkabba, who 
invited them to assist him in dislodging a party of the 
Mantatees, who had entrenched themselves at Letabarabu, 
a principal town of the next tribe, that of the Baquina, 
which had keen overrun and dispersed by the invaders. 
