CHAP. XXXIII. 
NAMACQUA LAND. 
OCCURRENCES AT PELLA— EXCURSION— SINGULAR DIS- 
EASE AMONG SHEEP. 
Sept. 13th. 
Employed the greater part of the day, in col- 
lecting information respecting the Damara, and other 
nations beyond Great, or North Namacqua land. The 
Namacquaas who were collected to give the informa- 
tion were surprised and amused by many of the 
questions asked, being unable to conceive why I 
wished to know such things about a people 1 had 
never seen. To observe their significant smile while 
answering some of my questions was very entertaining. 
Thermometer at sun-rise, 50. At noon, 88. 
The Namacquaas live in low circular huts, like the 
Corannas, composed of branches of trees bent, and 
stuck into the ground at both ends, with mats made 
of rushes thrown over them. They differ from the 
Corannas in this, that in the inside they dig about a 
foot; or a foot and a half, into the ground, which they 
