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could we perceive the moft difcant traces of 
a2:riculturai labour. 
The country in our view was oi an iin~ 
menfe extent, .yet furrounded by a chain ot 
hills that appeared to contain the fountains 
of 4.hofe numerous rivulets Vv^hich glided 
through the plain in a variety of directions'. 
The mmofa tree appeared native to the ioii, 
and the woods were fo beautifully inter- 
Iperied, to give the lands all the appear- 
ance of a plantation cria-inallv defiurned bv 
art, and afterwards perfected by the hand 
of elegance. In my opinion, the whole 
v/anted nothing but villages, corn and in- 
habitants, to render this ipot an enviable 
abode for the molleniightenedaud luxurious 
of our countrymen. 
The natives who Received us on the Ciore, 
and w^hofe humanity we experienced in the 
hour of our misfortune, are a Caffrce. tribe ^ 
known by the apellation of Tambouchh or 
Ta?7ibicckees. They have been defcribed as 
the moft ferocious^ vindidivs and detejiahle clafe 
of beings that inhabit the vad and fertile 
territory of Caffraria^. not yielding evei^^to 
the Bojldis-men^ in every act of mafiacre, in- 
humanity and devaftation. 
'A calumny fo undelerved, fo atrocious, 
and poffibly fo-- rnifchievous in its tendency. 
I cannot fufter to pafs without cenfure and 
contradic^tion ; nor can I at this moment re- 
flecl on the genuine characlet of thefe peo- 
ple, without coniidering their calumniatO!;s 
a» a banditti chnjiian ruffians, who pro« 
