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outlines of the geography of this portion of the African con- ~ 
tinent. | ) 
Having thus gone through an account of the progress of 
discovery along the shores of the South-eastern coast, I 
proceed to give an outline of their geography, and at the 
same time some idea of their respective population; but: a 
sketch of this kind can only touch upon the more promi- 
nent parts of a subject of such magnitude and interest. 
I. The first great political division of the interior, next 
to the Colonial limits, is that under the Amakosz tribes, or 
Caffers Proper, bounded from the Colony by the Keis- 
kamma River on the west; by part of the Ombashee River 
on the east; by the ocean on the south, and on the north 
by the secondary range of mountains, a subordinate ridge to 
that vast chain proceeding from the Colony, and keeping 
an average distance of about one hundred miles from the 
coast, and which there is every reason to believe (running 
behind Delagoa, as far as which it has been traced) joins 
the Lapata range at the Zambezi River, whose existence 
has not only been doubted, but absolutely denied. It is 
well watered, and the following are its chief streams. 
The Keiskamma,—with rather a short course,—rises in 
the Winterberg Mountain, which is snow capped for seve- 
ral months in the year, and the parent of rivers which 
reach both the southern coast and the Orange River, and 
through that extensive drain, the Atlantic Ocean, falls into 
the sea, about lat. 33° 12’, long. 27° 40’, and appears to be 
open to navigation: its shores at its zstuary possess every 
material for building, as well as every other advantage for | 
the formation of a civilized establishment. 
The Konkay or Buffalo River is the next in order, and 
of equal length with the Keiskamma; a Wesleyan Mis- 
sionary Station of some promise is situated upon one of its 
