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gave a grand feature to the landscape; while an 

 immense undulating plain, diversified with thick 

 evergreens and verdant pasturage extended to an 

 immeasurable distance on the other. 



After some hours passed in travelling we uiU 

 spanned at the farm of " Groot IViMem" where we 

 remained during the night, and on the ensuing morn- 

 ing at five o'clock, proceeded to " Kaka Post" 

 where we again halted about mid-day to refresh our 

 oxen. While here, a party of Buchuanas, who had 

 been driven from their own country by the Corannas, 

 came to beg a little tobacco, and a few articles of 

 sustenance, with which we felt pleasure in supplying 

 them, from a consideration of their reduced state, 

 they having been entirely plundered of their cattle 

 and other property by those merciless marauders. 



" From the destroying foeman fled, 

 He serves the Colonist for bread : 

 Yet this poor heathen Buchuan 

 Bears on his brow the port of man ; 

 A naked, homeless exile he — 

 But not debased by slavery." 



From this point we took an easterly direction to 

 Graham's Town, and bivouacked at the close of day 

 near the Fish River, which we had crossed during 

 the afternoon, and the next morning had an oppor- 

 tunity of witnessing one of those armies of flying 

 locusts which so frequently visit this country. At a 

 distance their flight resembled a thick mist, but on 

 their nearer approach we soon discovered the fearful 



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