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ing a circumference of twenty yards in diameter: the leaves 
were eleven inches long, and one and a half broad, and 
deeply serrated. | 
The inner range of country is much more free of wood, 
and consists of large plains, but so swampy as to be tra- 
velled over in a direct line with much trouble: game is 
abundant; and, since the spoil of the flocks by their con- 
querors, has mainly supplied them with food, and enabled 
them to collect fresh herds from their westerly neighbours 
by the sale of antelope skins, especially those of the ‘blue 
buck, the antilope pygmea, a favourite and costly ornament, 
used for the head dress of the Caffer belles. Laws of great 
severity have, therefore, been enacted, and scrupulously 
administered, to protect this now important branch of trade ; 
and the various Chiefs have respectively assumed a landed 
proprietorship over several districts, which they either hunt 
in themselves, or let out at high prices for determinate 
periods to parties of native adventurers, thus creating a 
novel and lucrative source of wealth to repair their previous 
numerous losses. 
The coast from the Omzimvooboo or St. John’s River, to 
the Omtavoomoo, is one continued bed of elevated rocks 
without one patch of sand; oysters are most abundant along 
this whole line, and of the most delicious kind. Most of the 
rivers and rivulets, with which the country is almost inces- 
‘santly intersected, precipitate themselves over those rocky 
ledges into the sea, in numerous and beautiful cataracts, 
more than one of which are said to have a fall of full three 
hundred feet. It was on this iron-bound and inhospitable 
shore that the Grosvenor East Indiaman’s wreck occurred 
in the year 1782. This catastrophe took place about seven 
miles westward of the Omzimcaaba River, or in lat. 31° 10’, 
and long. 29° 50’, where eighty-six pigs of iron wedged in 
