SCENE IN SITSIKAMMA. 
KORAH HOTTENTOTS PREPARING TO REMOVE. 
THE AFRICAN HOG. 
N° 19. 
This wild and uninhabited part of southern Africa is situated between Plettenberg's 
Bay and Algoa Bay, about five hundred miles from the Cape of Good Hope. It is 
intersected by rivers running through deep ravines, whose slanting sides are finely 
clothed with forest trees, some of uncommon growth and luxuriance. In these im- 
penetrable forests are buffaloes without number, rhinoceroses, and elephants, the 
last of which, at present, are scarcely to be found in any other part of the colony. 
Here they are sometimes shot by the boors, who usually take their station in the 
thickets near some still part of a river, where it is easily accessible, and where the 
traces of the animal shew that it frequents. Laying thus in ambuscade, they take 
aim at the head near the ear, which is considered to be the most mortal part. These 
forests abound with a variety of birds, whose nests are frequently suspended in a 
curious manner from the extremities of the branches of trees. 
N° 20. 
N° 21. 
Among the various tribes of the Hottentot race the Korahs, who dwell along the 
banks of the Orange River, have attained the highest degree of civilization. Their 
circular huts are constructed with more care and regularity, and the mats with 
which they are covered are more firmly and neatly made, than what are found 
among other tribes. They possess also a greater number and variety of utensils for 
domestic use; their vessels are sometimes made of clay baked in the sun, of wood 
hollowed out, and of gourds. Their clothing is not much different from the others, 
but their persons are more cleanly, owing probably to the abundance of water with 
which the Orange River is at all seasons, and more especially in summer, supplied, 
and which in almost every other part of the southern angle of Africa is a scarce 
article. Their animals consist of horned cattle, sheep, goats, and dogs. They have 
no kind of carriages, but, on their removal from place to place, their mats, their 
household furniture and utensils, are packed on oxen, as in the annexed print, 
which, in addition, usually carry the women and children. 
There is not perhaps a more disgusting or a more savage animal than the wild 
Hog of Africa. This beast, as well as the elephant, the buffalo, and the rhi- 
noceros, abounds in the woods of Sitsikamma, and is generally hunted by dogs, 
which, with its long sharp fangs growing out of the lower jaw, it sometimes lace- 
rates in a dreadful manner, and frequently tears them to death. Its eyes are small 
and placed high in the forehead ; two remarkable excrescences grow like two ears 
out of its cheeks, and the lower part of its head appears as if inclosed in a sack. 
The neck, the shoulders, and the breast, are covered with long hair. It differs very 
considerably from the Barbaroussa, or Ethiopian Hog, which is also a native of 
the Cape. 
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