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SOUTHERN AFRICA. 
sufficient to enable tlie inhabitants to raise 
enough, grain for their own support. In extent 
it stretches Northwards along the Western coast,, 
until it joins the country of the Damara tribes, 
about 200 miles above the Gariep, and about 
the same distance Eastward from the coast line. 
It is separated from the Bechaanas land by an 
immense desert, is wholly uninhabited, and quite 
devoid of water. The soil is a loose sand, oc- 
casionally tufted with patches of grass. 
On the Eastward, again, of Little Namaqua- 
land, and North of the divisions of Beaufort and 
Clanwilliam, extends the Koronna country, and 
Griqualand; which former is bounded on the 
north by the Gariep ; the latter stretching across 
it. These tracts take their names from their 
present tribes, of whom we shall have to treat 
more minutely hereafter. Their soil, however, 
first demands attention. It is here more ver- 
dant than in Namaqualand, although partaking 
of the Karroo character; but, as we proceed 
Northwards, it is covered with long rank grass, 
and thinly planted with acacia trees, and mi- 
mosa thorns. The fact of the inhabitants rear- 
ing cattle in abundance, and of an approved 
description, is a sufficient proof of the better 
description of land. 
Ere leaving these several Southern divi- 
sions of the Cape, however, one object is well 
