420 A JOURNEY IN 
refresh their Ava^^-wora cattle. And as the plains abounded 
with the camelopardalis, almost the whole party resolved to 
make a day's sport, in order to procure, if possible, one or 
more of these extraordinary creatures. In the course of the 
day they saw and chased a gi'eat number, some alone and 
otliers in herds of live or six ; but all their exertions were in 
vain, and they were obliged to quit the field without killing 
a single beast, though several were supposed to be Avounded. 
One of the party, however, shot a rhinosceros of an extra- 
ordinary size. It measured from the head to the root of the 
tail ten feet seven inches, and its height exceeded five feet six 
inches. But its size was less the subject of remark than the 
peculiarity of its horns, which were pretty nearly of the same 
length ; whereas in the common rhinosceros of Southern 
Africa the upper horn is a mere stump of about six inches in 
length. This variety of the two-horned rhinosceros is called 
by the Booshiiaiias the Jeckloa, and the common kind, of 
which the party killed one the following day on the Magaaga 
or Iron Mountain, the Mogoite. Here also they fell in with 
several of the Kokoon, the palla, and the common giioo, beside 
a number of hartebeests and springboks. Quachas and elands 
were equally plentiful in this part of the country, of the latter 
of which three kyge bulls were shot by one of the Hottentots^ 
in the course of the day. 
Keeping to the westward of their fornier track, and tra- 
velling over a country abundantly rich in almost every species 
of wild quadruped that frequents the plains of Africa, but 
almost destitute of a human being, except a few miserable 
Bosjesmen, who in parties of three or four, but never exceed- 
