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the excavations, from being re-opened. ‘The whole of this 
division is rife with human existence, the Zulos having 
selected it as their country, and pitched their chief kraal 
or capital, called Nobambe, on the heights above the Zim- 
teanga, a stream which falls into the White Valoozie. ‘To 
give an account of this nation, by far the most extraordinary 
and interesting of those who inhabit the African continent 
in modern times, of their amazing conquests, which have 
extended over an area of one hundred and sixty thousand. 
square miles; their manners, policy, government, and other 
matters essential to the description of a people,—would be 
impossible within the limits of the present notice, which has 
already overgrown its proper size. 
VII. From St. Lucia to Delagoa Bay, is a tract of ten 
thousand square miles, almost destitute of inhabitants, the 
Zulos having devastated the country, in their mad career 
of bloodshed and rapine. ‘This region, for a long distance 
inland, is low and marshy, which character it preserves, it 
is said, as far as Mozambique. It teems with animal life 
of all descriptions, among which, are also those of the most. 
noxious and dangerous kinds,—lions, tigers, alligators, and 
snakes of great variety, including the boa. Inward from 
the coast, the country becomes hilly until it reaches the 
Ingale, or snowy range of mountains, whose summit is one 
vast plateau, destitute of wood, rocky, but affording good 
pasturage, inhabited by small kraals of Buchuanas, and a 
few scattered families of Bushmen. 
Compared with the divisions already enumerated, water 
is much scarcer as we proceed towards Delagoa, and the 
rivers are found at wider intervals; the chief of these are 
the Omcoos, the Pongola, and the Mapoota. The Omcoos 
rises at a long distance from the coast, but its entire course 
has not yet been traced: its estuary is supposed to be the 
