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Amakose tribes, from whom they are now most distinctly 
divided.as a nation. Their country is situated behind 
the latter-named people. The Zwarte Kei, rising in the 
Winterberg, and the Stormberg River, so named from the 
mountain in which it first bursts into existence, separate 
them from the colonists;*the grand northern range of 
mountains from the Bechuanas of the Orange River, a 
somewhat undefined and undulating line along the sub- 
sidiary ridge, until it reaches the Ombashee River, from the 
Amakosz, and thence in a north-easterly course to one of 
the sources of the Omtata River, from the neighbouring 
tribe, the Amaponda. 
The extent of this territory comprises six thousand miles, 
and can only be contrasted, not compared, with that of the 
Caffers Proper: it is poorly watered, the streams which 
intersect it, the heads of the Bashee, Omtata, and Kei Rivers 
being merely a succession of pools, except in the rainy 
season. It is composed of extensive elevated, dry, and un- 
sheltered plains, a real karoo of desert, parched by a burn- 
ing sun in summer, and chilled by excessive cold in the 
opposite season. ‘Trees, and those even of stinted growth, 
are only found along the banks of the river, giving, by their 
dark and regularly marked lines, to the spectator from any 
elevation, a map-like appearance to the country, the inter- 
vening spaces being destitute of any shrub of more than a 
few inches in height. ‘The pasturage is, however, luxuriant 
at certain seasons: its growth after rain appears almost 
miraculous; but droughts of months, and sometimes of 
years’ extent, render a large portion of this country perma- 
nently uninhabitable, thus perpetuating, as it must have 
originated, the nomadic manners of the race, which at 
present finds a wretched and precarious subsistence on its 
