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The Gnabbaka, twenty miles from the Kobaknabba, is 
also a fine stream, much like the last-named. 
The superficial extent of the territory of this tribe may be 
estimated at about five thousand square miles; it is gene- 
rally more fertile than the Colonial possessions, much better 
timbered and more abundantly watered, numerous small 
streams intervening between those just nated, but which 
are not open to the sea, except at the time of freshets, being 
blocked up by sandy bars. Rain is frequent, chiefly in 
summer, the dry season being in the winter. The surface of 
the country is very much broken by ravines filled with a 
thick jungle of bushes, while the more level spots are 
covered with forests of that graceful and odoriferous treé, the 
mimosa Capensis. Its birds, its insects, and its botanical 
treasures, are rich, varied, and unrivalled, and offer a field 
“white to the harvest” for the collector, gleanings alone 
from which have yet been gathered. Game, that is, objects 
of the chase, are rare, the native hunters having almost ex- 
hausted the quarry. 
The Amakose tribe inhabiting this country has already 
been described by several writers, and its history brought 
down to very late periods. Barrow, Lichtenstein, and Bur- 
chell, have each contributed their collections to our stock of 
knowledge of this people. ‘To Thompson’s work some very 
interesting notes are appended by one of the Missionaries, 
the Rev. Mr. Brownlee; and an extremely well drawn up 
paper on the subject, by Mr. Assistant-Surgeon Morgan, 
has been published in the Journal of the South African 
Literary and Scientific Institution. 
II. The next division is that of the Amaytymbe, or 
Tambookie tribe of Caffers, the supposed progenitors of the 
