204 APPENDIX. 
IV. From the Omzimvooboo to the Omtavoomoo River, 
is a distance along the coast of fifty-five miles, and the divi- 
sion I have marked by these boundaries contains about two 
thousand superficial miles. Itis almost destitute of human 
inhabitants, a few only residing close to the first-named 
streams, and belonging to the Amaponda race, having been 
depopulated by the firebrand and spear of the Zulo con- 
queror, whose march has been well traced. by our readers 
by the innumerable remains of human skeletons with 
which ‘the whole country is strewn. The Omtavoomoo 
River, whose source is seventy miles long, and. whose 
zstuary is in lat. 30° 55’, and long. 30° 7’, is a great phy- 
sical line of demarcation, and forms a perfect boundary 
between the north-eastern and south-western part of the ~ 
coast, distinguished by the comparative severity of its tem- 
perature and climate, the cold being intense, and the rains 
very frequent, as well as by the difference in its vegetable 
productions, the wild date and banana, which are com- 
mon beyond this division, entirely ceasing to exist westward 
of this stream. All the seaward portion of this tract is 
covered by dense woods, and possesses the most magnificent 
forest scenery. Its trees have been generally represented as 
very different from any of the Colonial kinds, and one espe- 
cially has received the homage of most of the travellers, but 
unfortunately not yet of a botanist. It is chiefly found in 
the extensive woods near the Omzimvooboo, and its river ; is 
described as being seventy feet in height, perfectly straight, 
when it at once spreads into a canopy of foliage, quite flat, 
_and impervious both to light and rain, the top of a single 
tree in the dense mass of other kinds appearing, from the 
neighbouring heights, like a fine grass-plot, and when seve- 
ral are together, like fine lawns. One specimen has been 
particularly noticed by Messrs. Cowie and Green, as shad- 
