Q24 APPENDIX. 
seat of large and rich silver mines, and thence in small 
boats to the trading station, from which the adventurers 
send out their agents in different directions, who in return 
for Surat cloths, beads, coarse silks, and iron, bring back 
gold, ivory, and other valuable articles. 
From information procured by Bowdich, the Zumbo 
fair is held in about lat. 17° 30’, and long. 27° 30’, 
nearly five hundred miles direct north of Kurrechane, 
a point which is now frequently visited by the traders of 
the Cape Colony. It is surrounded by forests, and is 
a place of great resort; and a force of thirty-seven re- 
gulars is said to be maintained there by the Portu- 
guese. ‘To it is brought not only the principal part of the 
gold of the rich mines of Abutua (through which country 
the great river Cunene is supposed to run), one hundred 
and twenty leagues distant to the westward, but also that 
from the mines of Pemba and Murusura, “ and what seems 
more extraordinary, considerable quantities of ivory from 
the Orange River.” In this part of the interior the cli- 
mate is mild and salubrious, but the resident Portuguese 
mulattos are represented to be very unprincipled. There 
are copper and iron mines near Zumbo, also beds of coal, 
various kinds of crystals, and an abundance of excellent 
timber *. 
JOHN CENTLIVRES CHASE. 
Just as these sheets were going to press, I received “The 
Cape of Good Hope Literary Gazette” for February, 1835, 
containing a letter from Mr. A. G. Bain, the celebrated 
African traveller, giving an account of his recent perilous 
adventures across the Bechuana country north of Litakou. 
* South African Quarterly Journal, 1834. 
