THE LONG-MOUNTAIN. — ARRIVAL OF MUCHUNKA. 12— 14 June, 
They appeared to be very lofty, and it was said that on the other 
side there is little descent, the country continuing at the same 
high level : which fact, as the air must there be colder than in the 
lower plains about Klaarwater, has induced the Hottentots to keep 
their horses there during the season of the paardeziekte (horse-dis- 
temper). The plains on the other side, are called by the name of 
Zandveld (Sand-country). There is another elevated tract between 
Langberg and The Kloof, where horses are also kept, and which is 
therefore named Paardeberg (Hotse-mountain). Respecting the 
regions lying westward from Zandveld, I could obtain no information. 
ISth. Stonebucks were met with in the surrounding plains; two 
of them were shot by Juli, who soon began to prove himself a good 
marksman, a qualification which Hottentots in general are very 
desirous of acquiring, and which they consider as one of the most 
valuable and important. 
The three men whom I had sent to fetch Muchunka, did not 
return till this morning, having found the journey to Langberg, 
longer than they were able to perform in one day. Their powder- 
horns were empty, all their bullets gone, and yet they had shot 
nothing : to account for which, they asserted that they had missed 
their aim every time they fired. But they had been at an outpost of 
Klaarwater people ; and this was the true cause of all their ammuni- 
tion being gone. What they got in return for it, I could not discover; 
it is probable that the people at the Kraal required it of them, as an 
act of friendship from one Hottentot to another. There are two 
things much wanting with many of these Hottentots, and which, it is 
to be hoped, the missionaries will not think too much beneath the 
notice of evangelical teachers to instruct them in the best mode of 
acquiring : these are, veracity and a conscientious discharge of the 
moral duties. 
However, their arrival, with or without ammunition, gave me 
much pleasure, when I saw that Muchunka was with them ; as I had 
long been greatly in fear that when the time for his services arrived, 
it would be found that he also had been dissuaded from venturing to 
accompany us : but fortunately for me, he was a man not much 
