316* JOURNEY BEYOND THE GREAT RIVER. 
divide the Bootchuana and the Corranna countries. 
About a mile from what we named Wilberforce Pass, 
we found near a hundred Lattakoo people, who had 
left it after us, having come by a nearer way across 
the hills. Their object was to gather ounshes' roots 
for food. They had slept among the bushes all night, 
though it was a very cold one. They seemed pleased 
to see us again, and soon began their old trade of 
begging snuff and tobacco from us. Exactly at the 
mouth of Wilberforce Pass, we came to a small 
village of Red Caffres, who on our approach fled to 
the top of a hill behind the kraal; but on perceiving 
we were accompanied by some Matchappees, the men 
ventured down, and afterwards, on their calling to 
them, the women descended also. Their appearance 
indicated wretchedness in the extreme, and they seem- 
ed to behold us with astonishment, being a most novel 
sight to them. Their dwellings were so low as to be 
hardly visible among the bushes till quite close to 
them. They were the shape of half a hen s egg, with 
the open part exposed to the weather, which must be ex- 
tremely inconvenient in the rainy season, unless they are 
able to turn the inclosed side to the storm, which might 
easily be done. For a christian man to spend his days 
in delivering such beings from their wretchedness in 
this remote part of Africa, would be one of the noblest 
acts of benevolence which could be recorded in the his- 
toric page. God is able to produce such men, and to 
bless their efforts. They were so covered with dirt, 
mixed with spots of very red paint, that it appeared 
