280 QUETO's DEFEAT AND DEATH. 



mainder of the tribe. It is said that Queto himself 

 was numbered with the slain. 



" In July, 1828, Messrs. Cowie and Green, two 

 intelligent and enterprising gentlemen with whom 

 I was acquainted at Graham's Town, started from 

 the British Settlement with an expedition fitted out 

 at a considerable expense, for the purpose of ex- 

 ploring the coast of Caffraria to Natal, and of pro- 

 ceeding from thence in a northerly direction into the 

 Bechuana country. Their progress was impeded for 

 a considerable period in consequence of the com- 

 mandoes that had been dispatched by government 

 to arrest the progress of the Zoulah Chief Chaka, 

 whose forces were supposed to be on their march 

 towards the colony. The delay, however, although 

 much deplored by the adventurers, was profitably 

 employed in collecting > subjects of Natural History. 

 The military expeditions had fallen in with, and 

 routed, a savage tribe named Lemangwani, under the 

 Chief Matnana, which had been driven from its 

 native country on the sources of the Omvaloose, or 

 St. Lucia River, by Chaka, about the year 1822, 

 and originated the horde of Mantatees, who precipi- 

 tated themselves like an avalanche on the unwarlike 

 Bechuana tribes from the sources of the Orange 

 River, as far north as the tropic, and afterwards 

 fixed themselves on the Orntata River. Upon the 

 return of those expeditions Messrs. Cowie and 

 Green were allowed to proceed, and on the 29th 



