38 ADVENTURES OF TWO CORANNAS. [1820. 
appear at all ashamed to beg from them. At fom' 
p. M. we passed a considerable salt-lake to the 
right. Our Matchappees found a dead quacha, 
which had been killed by the lions ; a great part 
they carried off, though it had been previously 
discovered by a Bushman. Dead animals are 
easily found by the hovering of ravenous birds at 
a great height in the air above them. We halted 
at half past four p. m. near some small pools of 
rain-water. We were joined by two of our 
people, who had left us three days beforfe, ex- 
pecting to reach a Coranna kraal, which lay 
towards the mountains of Malapeetzee. They had 
been induced to undertake this excursion in con- 
sequence of having relations in that place, and from 
a young Bushman who travelled with us saying- 
he knew the way. They set off in good spirits 
and full of expectation, though they returned 
completely worn out. Owing to the foggy atmos- 
phere they soon wandered, and knew not where 
they were. Happily reaching a small Bushman 
kraal before it was dark, they slept in one of the 
huts, and departed early the next morning, but 
observing no distant hills to the south, as they ex- 
pected, they could not, in consequence of the ha- 
ziness of the atmosphere, ascertain the direction in 
which the kraal lay. At one time seven lions came 
suddenly upon them, but making all the noise in 
their power, the lions retreated, and left them to 
pursue their journey unmolested. Drawing near 
