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‘same named in the charts as the Go.d Downs River, situated 
in lat. 27°, long. 32° 50’. The Pongola is a fine stream, and 
was formerly the seat of a native state of some consideration. 
It has lately been stated that the Gold Downs River of the 
chart and the Pongola are identical, but without sufficient 
authority; while, from the map sketched by Messrs. Cowie 
and Green, the Pongola is made to fall into the Mapoota. 
The Mapoota, La Zoota of the natives, is the largest 
river of the country: its sources are unknown, but supposed 
to be in the northern side of the Ingale Mountains, some- 
where behind Natal. It has water sufficient for vessels of 
sixty tons burthen as high as thirty miles from its mouth, 
and a boat navigation for a long distance beyond: its width 
varies from fifty to five hundred yards, its banks are covered 
with dense forests for forty miles, when the country taking a 
rise, they begin to disappear: the scenery, as described by 
several visitors, must be very majestic. 
Delagoa Bay, the most southern possession of the Portu- 
guese government, on the eastern side of Africa, as fixed by 
the treaty of the year 1825, is too well known to require par- 
ticular description here. 
It has been occupied by several nations at different times, 
but without success; and its only pertinacious masters, the 
Portuguese, hold, it is evident, a very insecure tenure of the 
place, being frequently obliged to shut themselves up in 
their miserable and ruinous fort as a protection against the 
warlike savages, irritated by constant ill treatment: so late 
as the year 1824,a party, with the Governor, fifty disci- 
plined soldiers, and three hundred men, were cut off by a 
popular Chief. The natives of Delagoa Bay are called, 
by the Zulos, Amacluangas, from whom, in language and 
manners, they materially differ; but from Delagoa Bay to 
Sofala the people appear to be one common stock. 
