220 DISTANT VIEW OF KURREECHANE. [1820. 
trees were of the palm kind, others resembled 
the orange and the peach, and a third species 
appeared as if sprinkled all over with flour. 
The stateliest tree in the woods possessed a leaf 
like that of the peach, and from its timber the 
natives make the rafters of their houses. The 
fruit is said to be so abundant in the season, that 
the towns are then almost emptied of inha- 
bitants, who take up their residence upon the 
mountains, for the purpose of gathering it. 
At two p. M. we came within sight of extensive 
corn-fields, in a plain of great length, but not 
above two or three miles broad. In a short time 
part of the long-desired city was seen, standing 
on the top of one of the highest hills in that part 
of Africa. Moeelway, the eldest son (though 
not by the eldest queen) of the late king of the 
Marootzee, with two other persons who had been 
upon a hunt, joined us about this time. He was 
tall and well shaped, of a mild countenance, and 
about twenty-five years of age. He acted as our 
guide till we arrived at the city, which was about 
five miles distant. 
On reaching the corn-fields, parties of men, 
women and young people hastened to the wag- 
gons from every quarter. They gazed as if they 
had suddenly been translated to a new world. 
The men drew near, but the women kept at a re- 
