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in & boat, had determined to enter it, with his vessel, but 
death, unfortunately for him and the cause of civilization 
prevented this important project being carried into effect. 
The Omzimvooboo etiters the sea in lat. 31° 30’, and long. 
29° 25’. 
The inhabitants of this country belong to the race called 
Amapondas, whose territory formerly reached to the. river 
Omtavoof, seven miles beyond St. John’s, but now, in con- 
sequence of the conquests of Chaka, few are found beyond 
the last-named stream. They are a superior race to the 
Caffers, although evidently derived from the same common 
origin, more cleanly in their residences and persons, greater 
cultivators of the soil, and have in former times been a very 
powerful nation. They are now to be seen under great dis- 
advantages, from the effects of the distress to which they 
have been reduced by the complete plunder of their herds, 
and hurried as they have been from one situation to another 
by the cruel and ambitious Zuloes. 
Besides this people, a most interesting little tribe occupy a 
portion of the country I have just described, whose existence 
has already been made made known by W. van Reenen, in 
1790, when in search of the survivors of the Grosvenor In- 
diaman. I allude to the descendants of Europeans wrecked 
on this coast, the re-discovery of whom has awakened long- 
slumbering sympathies for the fate of the parties saved from 
that dreadful scene of destruction. The expedition of 
‘Major Dundas, in 1828, already mentioned, was the first, 
since the time of Van Reenen, which fell in with these 
people, of whose history and present circumstances our late 
intercourse with the interior has given us frequent opportu- 
nities to procure information; a considerable mass of facts 
connected with which I have been able to collect, but they 
are by far too voluminous for this paper. 
