186 APPENDIX; . 
Tn about lat. 24° 50’, and long. 27° 40’, somewhere below 
the Philip’s Fountain of Campbeil, the party took a direct’ 
easterly route, and after proceeding about forty miles, dis~ 
covered a large river, called by the natives Moriqua; at the 
ford or drift they crossed it was very deep, and forty yards 
wide. This stream, which they traced nearly up to its 
source, and for fifty miles down towards its estuary, rises in 
the south, between the 25th and 26th degree of latitude, 
29th and 30th longitude, first takes a north-west course to 
the ford just mentioned, and then sweeps to the north-east, 
and passes through a large opening in an elevated range 
of mountains running nearly due west and east under the 
tropic. ‘The natives stated their ignorance of the country 
beyond these mountains, but they understood it was in- 
habited: by men with long hair, robbers by profession, and 
of the most ferocious disposition. ‘The banks of the river 
are well timbered, but infested with alligators of a large size. 
From the ford, the traders drove on eastward along and 
close to a range of mountains on their right hand, or south, 
rich in metallic ores, where were abundant remains of 
Bechuanna villages (the natives having been destroyed by 
the Mantatee tribes), and traces of recently wrought iron- 
mines. ‘che country was most fertile in appearance, luxu- 
riant ‘in pasturage, well wooded, and watered by frequent 
streams rising in the mountains, and joining, it was imagined, 
the Moriqua, which not unlikely falls into the Indian Ocean 
on the coast of Inhamban. Geographical accuracy is not 
to be expected from mere traders, but this party having 
been conducted by an educated individual, of great good 
sense, and capability of observation, much faith may be 
placed upon his journal, written with great care and pre- 
cision. of detail. Somewhere about lat. 24° 50’, and 
longitude 29° 40’, they crossed another considerable river 
