TRAVELS IN 
Several detached pieces of hematite were found among the 
mass of slate. Indeed there is scarcely a mountain in Africa 
that does not produce iron ores ; and ochres are every where 
found in the greatest abundance. The finest of these earths 
are met with in the state of impalpable powders inclosed in 
crustaceous coverings of a reddish color, of the hardness and 
consistence of baked earthen ware, sometimes in single no- 
dules of an inch or two inches diameter, but more frequently 
in clusters of two, three, or four nodules, connected by necks 
which are also hollow. In these stones every shade of color 
is said to have been found, except the greens ; but the most 
common are those of a pale yellow and chocolate brown. 
The country people know them by the name oi paint-stones, be- 
cause the powders they contain, when mixed up with oil, make 
very good paint, without any sifting or further preparation. 
On the upper part of the Bosjesman's river we received a 
visit from the chief of the Ghonaquas, followed by the last 
remains of this mixed tribe of Kaffer and Hottentot, consist- 
ing of about a dozen people. The prediction of Vaillant con- 
cerning this horde has turned out but too true. The name 
of Ghonaqua, like those of the numerous tribes of Hottentots 
now extinct, is just on the eve of oblivion. Driven out of 
their ancient possessions in the Zuure Veldt by the colonists, 
they yet found an asylum from the father of Gaika, in one 
of the most fertile districts of his kingdom, watered by the 
river Kaapna : here they were suffered to remain in quiet till 
the late disturbances among the KafFers, occasioned by the 
refusal of 2ambie to yield to his nephew the reins of the go- 
