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appeared — the remnants of their number be- 
coming Bushmen of the wildest kind. 
Besides Waterboer, Cornelius, and Adam 
Kok, are others who have assumed chieftainship 
among the Griquas, and may be named as exer- 
cising considerable influence and power among 
them. From its isolated position, this tribe of 
the Hottentot nation has, throughout the years 
of their early history, been the best organ- 
ised, and well-disposed, of the number. Eecent 
colonial events, however, have induced all par- 
ties to look with very great and well-merited 
suspicion, on every branch of a nation, whose 
ingratitude, love for political agitation, and 
universal democracy of principles, united with 
their determined, and, in too many instances, 
late fatal resistance to all proper and military 
control, have been the main cause of the last 
outbreak of the border tribes of the Colony. 
The last race belonging to this part of the 
Hottentot family worthy of note here, is the 
Namaqua tribe, which dwells in Great and 
Little INamaqualand, on the Western extremity 
of the Gariep or Orange river. 
To give, in a few words, a clear idea of 
the topography of this district, I quote the ac- 
count of Mr. Moffat, who visited it, so far back 
as the year 1806,* when the first Missionaries 
of the London Missionary Society entered on 
