May.] a QUACHA ATTACKED BY LIONS. 
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a low hill, they dispatched their Bushman to the 
top of it, to see if he could discover any part of the 
country which he knew ; but the Bushman conti- 
nuing longer absent than they had patience to wait, 
they went forward without him. Night coming on 
they slept under a bush, but the anxiety of their 
minds, and the Bushman having with him the 
sheep-skin caross, on Avhich they should have 
slept, prevented their repose. After wandering 
the whole of the third day, till a few minutes be- 
fore sunset, to their great joy they discovered the 
waggons and their fellow travellers, whom they 
eagerly rejoined, resolving never again to lose 
sight of them. 
Therm, at sunrise 44 : at sunset 60. 
About four o'clock in the morning, some lions 
attacked a poor quacha very near the waggons. 
It roared so hideously that it roused all our 
people. At daylight the lions retired, leaving 
only the head and bones of the animal. From 
these the Matchappees were busily employed all 
the morning in sucking the marrow. 
At nine a.m., after taking a farewel view of 
the Tammaha country to the N. and N. E., we 
proceeded towards the Corannas at Mobatee. 
We almost immediately descended into a beau- 
tiful valley of considerable extent, bounded by a 
range of low hills on each side, running from 
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