April.] SITE OF AN ANCIENT TOWN. 
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probable they might have been induced to pro- 
ceed with us a few stages farther. Their returning 
without any supply would be a great disappoint- 
ment to Kossie and his captains. 
Two of the Lattakoo Hottentots, who could 
speak the Bootshuana language, while searching 
for game fell in with a Bootshuana Bushman, 
who inquired who they were, and where they 
were going. They told him they were going to 
the Marootzee to tell them the word of God. He 
then begged to sit down and tell him what it was ; 
they did so, when he listened to their story ap- 
parently with deep interest. After they had 
finished, he said, " That word ought to have been 
in the country long ago." 
During the rain a Bootshuana had a severe 
tooth-ache, and one of the Hottentots was ill. 
30th. The morning was delightful, and the 
surrounding country not less so. We proceeded 
at ten a. m. and soon passed many old cattle in- 
closures, built of stone, some parts as neatly done 
as if they had been erected by European work- 
men. A town had evidently once stood on that 
spot, and the kraals we saw had been attached to 
the different districts. It appeared to have been 
two miles in length, and of considerable breadth. 
We also passed two or three villages of Bootshu^ 
