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copious, transparent, and delightful spring of water that had 
occurred in the whole journey ; and two miles beyond this 
they discovered another still superior, which indeed is pro- 
bably not to be matched in the whole of Southern Africa, as 
far as it is hitherto known. It not only gushed fi om a cavern 
of rocks as from the sluice of a mill-dam, but in innume- 
rable springs spouted up out of an extensive bed of white 
crystallized pebbles and quartzose sand, forming, at not more 
than a hundred paces from its source, a stream of at least 
thirty feet wide and two feet deep, called the Koiirmanna or 
Booshuana river, whose direction was to the northward. 
Being now arrived on the confines of the Brieqna country, 
the commissioners conceived it would be proper to send for^ 
ward the guide Macaiita to the first village, to apprize them 
of the approach of the expedition, and to desire them to send 
forward notice thereof to the chief of the nation* Before it 
was dark he returned to the waggons, bringmg back with him 
four of his countrymen who passed the night in the camp 
very contentedly. From these our travellers were informed 
that though their tribe was by the Koras usually called Brie^ 
qiias, yet that the name which they bore among themselves 
was BoosJiuanas. In the course of the morning four more 
advanced, one of which was pointed out as a chief and 
brother to the King. His name was Serakotie. The party 
having entertained them with a sheep and plenty of tobacco, 
for which they seemed to have a high relish, they became so 
exhilarated that they sung and shouted and danced the whole 
night long. 
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