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SLAUGHTER OF 
[1820. 
ana Bushmen, a people greatly despised by all the 
surrounding tribes. Were Missionaries to collect 
them into a nation, they would consider it a favor 
to be instructed ; while the Bootshuana and Mo- 
rolong nations, having pride of rank, think they 
are doing a favor to the Missionaries, when they 
listen to their instructions. 
Two hills were seen to the N.E., about twenty 
miles distant. At noon we crossed a small river, 
running \o the westward, called the Musaree, 
the sides of which were so steep, that we found 
some difficulty in getting the waggons across it. 
Shortly after crossing the Musaree I had an 
opportunity, for the first time, of seeing the 
rhinoceros. It passed within two hundred yards 
of the waggons ; a few minutes afterwards a man 
came with the information that they had shot one 
in the same direction in which it had run, so it 
probably was the same animal I had seen. On 
reaching the place where it lay, I was astonished 
at its bulk, being eleven feet long; six feet in 
height ; four feet broad, or in thickness ; three feet 
from the tip of the nose to the ears ; length of 
the fore legs two feet ; circumference of the upper 
part of the fore leg three feet ; length of the hind 
leg three feet ; and its circumference at the upper 
part three and a half feet ; the circumference of the 
body about eleven feet. The skin was dark 
brown, resembling tanned leather, about an inch 
