CHAP. XXXIV. 
ACCOUNT OF GREAT NAMACQUA COUNTRY. 
I HAD a meeting with two Great Namacqua chiefs 
and several others, from whom I derived the following 
information respecting that country. 
It lies N. and S. between the Great River and 
the Damara country, which is about twenty-five days* 
journey in an ox waggon, or nearly five hundred 
miles, not in real latitude but in traveUing. It lies 
chiefly along the sea coast, or Ethiopic Ocean, and does 
not extend up, or east, from it above ten days' journey. 
It is, in general, hilly and stony. Tlie inhabitants have 
a word in their language to express a supreme being, 
viz. Suiquap, or wounded knee, but they know nothing 
of him ; nor do they know that they have souls, but 
suppose they die as the beasts do. When there is an 
ecHpse of the sun or moon, they are much alarmed, 
for they expect great sickness will succeed. When 
certain stars appear in the heavens, they expect cer- 
