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of which all who have eaten desire to remain, and all those 
who have roamed from its feast pine to return? Is there a 
maladie de pays, a sickness not of home, but for a foreign 
land, generated by the atmosphere of this clime, barbarous 
only as respects its inhabitants? or why is it that no one 
individual, whatever his pursuits, whatever the circum- 
stances which have thrown him upon, or directed his steps 
to this land,—trade,—science, or misfortunes,—but seems 
enraptured with the natural beauties of the country ? The 
wrecked mariner, even while despairing of returning to his 
civilized home, has not withheld his meed of praise; the 
adventurous trader, searching for his profit thus far from 
home, has expressed a frequent wish that this was “his own, 
his native land;” and the only scientific visitor to these 
regions declared a wish to live and die there. There must 
be certainly something extraordinary in a country, to call 
forth so general a testimony in its favour. 
VI. The next division is that comprised between the 
Omtongala and St. Lucia Rivers, including numerous 
branches of the latter, and probably contains about ten 
thousand square miles. It is the chief seat of the Zoola 
power, and was acquired for that nation from its conquests 
over numerous divided tribes formerly its inhabitants. . 
Four large streams fertilize this territory, besides innu- 
merable others of smaller size, but it is not so well watered 
as the preceding divisions. 
The Amatekoola or Great River rises in the secondary 
range of mountains, is open at its mouth, situated in about 
lat. 29° 12’, and long. 31° 34’, and is frequently subject to 
great floods. 
The Omlelaas, or King’s River, is said to have seven feet 
of water on the bar at low water, and it disembogues itself 
in about lat. 29°, long. 31° 40’. 
