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Bushman’s River. Having gradually ascended to this 
point, he found himself on a considerable ridge, from which 
the slope was rapid and abrupt, and descending this elevated 
region, (a continuation of the hills seen by Scoon and 
M‘Luckie on their right hand, when they turned south 
towards the kraal of Omsediggas,) he proceeded to the 
village of the Zoola Chief, situated near a deep and rapid 
stream, called by him the Elephant’s River, which is placed 
nearly in Jat, 26° 30’, and long. 30° 20’. It is probable 
that this stream runs into Delagoa Bay, or some of the 
rivers which empty themselves there. ‘The memoranda 
made by Messrs. Hume and Millan, (whose observations 
render it certain they had entered the tropical regions,) 
not having yet come to hand, I am unable to give even 
an outline of their journey, in which they state they have 
discovered two fine rivers. In looking over the latest 
maps of the southern peninsula, a wide extent of country, 
it will be seen, is laid down along the western coast to 
the north of the Orange River, or Gareep, which is occu- 
pied by the Namacqua and Damara tribes: of this, 
however, but little is satisfactorily known, and it is repre- 
sented by the few travellers who had visited it as very - 
sandy, arid and barren, and but slightly populated: a large 
stream here figures on the charts, formerly called the Fish 
River, but since the Borradaile, which intersects, or rather 
drains, the country, watering it most probably only in the 
rainy season. It falls into the Gareep, at a small distance 
from its mouth. 
Before closing this part of the abstract of our information 
regarding the countries to the northward, and proceeding to 
the discoveries along the eastern coast, it may not be alto- 
gether uninteresting to describe the progress made upon the 
western shores of the Peninsula, towards the Portuguese 
