CHAP. IX. 
DEPARTURE FROM BETHELSDORP— TRAVELS IN ALfiANY 
--ARRIVAL AT GRAHAM'S TOWN. 
Albany, (formerly called Zure-Feld,) was once 
the country of the Gonaquaas, a nation now extinct, in 
consequence partly of intermarriages with the Hotten- 
tots on the one hand, and the Caffres on the other, 
but chiefly by the murders committed by the Caffres, 
The Caffres had long maintained possession of Albany, 
from which they have lately been driven as intruders, 
which it appears they were, and this is one principal 
cause of the present Caffre war. Albany is bounded 
on the east by the Ijridian ocean; on the north by 
Caffraria, from which it is divided by the Great Fish 
River; on the west by the Drosdy of Graaf Reynet; 
and on the south by the Drosdy of Uitenhagen, from 
which it is separated by the Sondag river. It is a 
country which remains to be peopled, as there are few 
inhabitants, except at military posts, which have been 
erected to check the incursions of the Caffres,, who are 
a bold, plundering, and enterprizing nation. Not- 
withstanding the utmost vigilance of the military at 
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