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JOURNEY TO 
able smell, and the timber under the bark is the 
colour of mahogany. At eleven a. m. we entered 
upon an extensive plain, to which there was no 
visible end, covered with long grass. The sum- 
mit of a low hill to the N. E. gradually rose into 
view as we advanced, but the whole scene had a 
dull, uninteresting appearance, except when flocks 
of quachas, ostriches, knoos, springboks, harte- 
beasts, &c. presented themselves to our view. 
Our people shot one beautiful quacha, striped 
black and white like the zebra. The Matchappees 
skinned and cut it up in a very short time. Of 
its flesh they are extremely fond, but of its en- 
trails much more so. Last night they ate two 
large potsful of quachas' flesh, and this morning 
three potsful. 
At two P.M. the thermometer rose to 86 r in 
consequence of the heat we halted at the side of 
a lake, when one of our people brought down 
four wild ducks by one shot, and another found 
eight Muscovy ducks' eggs, as large as those of a 
turkey. A long, low hill was seen to the S. E. 
A hord of Bootshuana Bushmen soon visited 
us, consisting of eleven men, eleven women, seven 
boys, and three children. They are subject to 
Mateebe, and bound to bring to him all the jack- 
als' skins they can procure ; all other game they 
may use as they please. Two of the men had 
