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about twelve years ago. Near to this place we found two 
other kraals of Corannas, under a chief called Tatema, who 
being, as the Griquas informed me, an excellent marksman 
and shot, I hired, along with three of his people, to accom- 
pany me in that capacity. Two days afterwards I was 
surprised to find that we had been joined by upwards of 
twenty more Corannas, with a number of horses, pack-oxen, 
&c., all followers of Captain Tatema; and as they had so 
much the appearance of banditti, I dreaded that, if their 
object was not to rob me, they might at least cause suspi- 
cions of hostile intentions to the tribes through whose coun- 
try we had to pass. However, they behaved themselves 
very well, and [I never had the least cause of complaint 
against my Coranna auxiliaries. 
After travelling from ‘Towné nine days, in a north- 
easterly direction, through a country only remarkable for 
its great sameness of appearance, consisting generally of 
immense flats, studded with camel-thorn trees, a sandy soil 
with a substratum of lime, plenty of grass, but no streams 
or fountains, only a few miserable pools, scarcely sufficient 
to supply the few straggling wild beasts and quaggas which 
we occasionally saw, we reached what is dignified with 
the name of the Seechagholie River, where I may say our 
operations of hunting only commenced. 
Our first day’s hunt was very successful, having bagged 
amongst us fourteen camelopards and two elands, and 
caught one camelopard calf, so that I had a great choice 
of skins and skeletons for preservation, for I never preserved | 
any but the finest specimens. Our second day’s sport was 
varied by the accession of some white and black rhinoceroses, 
and the capture of a half-grown giraffe. ‘This beautiful 
creature had two large sores on its shoulder, evidently 
caused by the paws of a lion, which latter brute, from their 
situation, must have been on the back of this gigantic but 
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