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CONTENTS. 
AN ACCOUNT OF A JOURNEY TO LEETAKOO. 
After passing the Boundary of the Colony, the Strength of the Ex- 
pedition is mustered — They meet with two Bosjesmans on the Desert — 
With a Dutch Boor and his Family — Pass the Karree-bergen, and 
meet a Party of armed Bosjesmans — 5^// Lakes — The Gariep or 
Orange Ri-ver — Horde of Kora Hottentots — Missionary Kicherer's 
Kraal-^Contrast betzue$n the Gospel and the Moravian Mission- 
aries — Bosjesmans — Several new Characters join the Party — The 
Iron Moimtain — Effect produced on the Compass — Wild Buffalos — 
Giraffe or ' tamelopardalis — Source of the Kourmanna River — 
Arrival of a Party of Booshuanas from the King — Mimosa or 
Umbrella Tree — Arrival at Leetakoo — Interview with the Chief — 
Situation, Size, and Population of Leetakoo — Some Account of the 
Booshuanas, their Character, Possessions, Resources, Amusements, 
free and happy Cojidition, Origin, ^c. — The Barroloos — Slavery 
unkyiown in the interior Parts of Southern Africa — The Palla 
Antelope — Face of the Country — Mimosas loaded with Nests of 
the gregarious Loxia — The Kokoon apparently a Species of Gnoo — 
A new Species of ^acha — Opinion of the Ancients respecting 
new Animals incorrect — Return to the Kourmanna River — A Lion 
shot while striding over a Hotte?itot — Booshuana Villages — Patanie — 
Abundance of large Game — The Takhcitse, a nezv Species of 
Antelope or Cow — Buffalo hunting — This Creature and the Elephant 
resent Injuries — The latter supposed to bury their Dead — Giraffe 
hunting — A large Rhinosceros killed — Arrive at the Orange River, 
and skirt its Banks to . the Norfh-Wesfward — Pass several Kora 
Villages — Kok's Kraal — Extraordinary Character and Adventures 
of one Stephanos, a Polish Greek — Expeditioji against a famous 
Robber of the Name of Africaaner— -Extraordinary Flight of 
Locusts— Critical Situation of the two Secretaries — Pithing of 
Cattle — Decisive Experiments to prove the Fallacy of its being the 
most expeditious and least painful Mode of slaughtering Cattle — 
Return of the Expedition to the Colony ----- 
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