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The small number of the trading party, and the conduct of 
the Bawankets, forced their consent, and they proceeded 
with a large body of native warriors on a most interesting 
journey, which afforded full scope to observe their method of 
waging war, and their mode of supplying their commis- 
sarlat, to the iast-mentioned place, fifty miles in advance, 
where they drove out the marauders, who were panic-struck 
at the sound of guns. The country passed to this place 
is very woody, water plentiful, but no running streams were 
seen; it is apparently very elevated, and doubtless forms a 
part of the separating ridge or central plateau, dividing the 
eastern and western waters. On the east, at a trifling dis- 
tance, a range of lofty mountains stretches in a diagonal line 
from north-west to south-east, named by the natives Le 
Roopa, and reported to be very rich in iron and copper: 
this divides the Baquin and Bawankets from the Bamorutzi 
nations; the range may be represented on the map as com- 
mencing in lat. 25° 40’, and long. 26° 30', and proceeding to 
lat. 24° 50’, and long. 27° 20’, their farther extent being 
unknown. A somewhat lower ridge rises on the western 
side, and the river, upon the head of which Litabaruba is 
situated, flows towards the north-east. ‘The language, 
manners, and habits of the people are the same as the other 
Bechuannas. ‘The next journey of importance in these 
regions was that of Messrs. Scoon and M‘Luckie. This 
trading party, leaving the Missionary Station at Boot- 
schnap, situated on the Hart River, near the confines 
of the country, seized from the natives by the mixed race 
of Griquas, and now denominated, by courtesy, Griqua 
Land, in about lat. 27° 50’, and long. 25° 5’, commenced 
a route in the same direction as that of Mr. Campbell in 
1820, frequently intersecting, and verifying many of the 
points laid down by that individual. 
