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TRAVELS IN 
passed the villages of Malloo and Tooley, the two chiefs and 
brothers we had seen in Zuure Veldt, delightfullj^ situated 
on two eminences on the banks of the said streamlet. We 
also passed several villages situated in the valley through 
which the Guengka and its branches meander, and the next 
day we came to a river of very considerable magnitude called 
the Keiskamma. Though no part of the colon}?- through 
wdiich we had yet passed could be compared to that portion 
of the KafFers' country which lay between the Great Fish 
river and the Keiskamma ; and though the huts of which the 
villages were composed appeared to be perfect and in good 
order, yet no vestige of human industry was yet visible, 
nor any traces, except the buildings, that might lead to a 
supposition that the country was inhabited. In fact, durmg 
the two days we had travelled in KafFerland not a human 
being had made its appearance, except one of our interpreters 
with a KafFer chief, whom we met at the close of the second 
day, and who had been dispatched by the king to invite and 
to conduct us to his place of residence. 
That part of the Keiskamma where we had encamped was 
not fordable by waggons : but, had it even admitted a passage, 
the country on the opposite side was so very mountainous and 
woody, that, so far from making the attempt with wheel- 
carriages, it was scarcely passable by horses. It was there- 
fore concluded to send forwards, on the following day, three 
or four Hottentots with a few presents, and to proceed froni 
the place of our encampment on horseback. Though the 
distance from the Keiskamma to the residence of the king 
was not more than fifteen miles, it took us above four hours 
