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JOURNEY TO LATTAKOO. 
[1813. 
sand. Perhaps by leading it in another direction, or 
cutting a bed for it across the sands, it might become 
a more extensive blessing to the country. The last 
experiment is likely to be the least successful, as pro- 
bably the first storm of wind would fill up the new 
bed. We entered the cave from whence it proceeds 
on purpose to examine it. The entrance was narrow, 
but we soon reached a kind of central room, the roof 
of which resembled in shape, though not in height, 
the doom of St. Pauls Cathedral in London, from 
which went four passages in different directions, in all 
which streams of water flowed. Though we had 
lighted candles with us, we could discover no end to 
any of these passages. Within, the water was almost 
lukewarm; but in the outside it was very cold. The 
rock is composed of limestone. 
Here John Kok, a boor from Cedar Mountain, and 
another, settled, when the Matchappees resided on 
the Krooman. Kok collected so many elephants' teeth, 
that, on his first journey to the Cape, he cleared 
several thousand dollars, which he spent foolishly on 
horses, dress, &c. before he returned to the Krooman, 
He was soon after murdered by two Matchappees, 
whom their chief delivered up to his widow to be 
shot ; but two of his own Hottentot servants were 
afterwards considered the chief aggressors, having pre- 
vailed upon the others to do it. Kok's companion 
immediately retired from the interior, and obtained a 
farm in the colony. We viewed the remains of Kok's 
hpuse, and bis garden, and Jifter searching for some 
