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running direct north, called the Waritcie, and they then 
turned immediately to the southward over a large plain, in 
which, just within the eastern verge of the horizon, could be 
seen two or three peaks of far-distant mountains. At the 
extreme point of this journey, which may be placed some- 
where about lat. 26° 30’, and long. 30° 5’, they fell in with 
a Zoola Chief, named Matsellikats *, or Omsediggas, wha 
had established himself there, having been driven over the 
great coastwise ridge of mountains by Chaka, the late 
sovereion of Nataal, and who was imitating the example of 
his victor, by reducing in his turn to his despotic sway. 
those inoffensive and half-civilized tribes upon whose terri- 
tories he had been forced. Kurrechane, or properly, Chuan, 
the town of Baboons}, so named. by the. natives from the 
number of those animals in the mountains surrounding that 
place, has been frequently visited by these traders: it was, 
however, in ruins, having been overrun by the Mantatees in 
their road towards the Colony in 1824. The inhabitants 
had removed twenty miles from the original site to the 
north-west, and their new city, under the same appellation, 
contained only two thousand instead: of sixteen thousand 
souls, as in the time of Campbell. The neighbouring 
country is described as very mountainous, highly beautiful, 
and exceedingly fertile. After the unexpected discovery 
made by these traders of-a Zoola Chieftain (Omsediggas) 
on the northward of the elevated mountain range which skirts 
the eastern coast, Mr. Moffat, the Missionary, proceeded 
from Kuruman to the new kraal of this interloper, by almost 
a direct easterly course, by taking of which he was the first 
to trace up one of the main branches of the Gareep, or Orange 
River, to its source, that marked in the maps as the Zwarte 
* Matacatzee of the Map.—Ep. 
+ First visited by Mr. Campbell in 1819. 
