108 INFORMATION OBTAINED [1820. 
assumed the name of Matslaroo, instead of Ma- 
rootzee. They were not at that time under sub- 
jection to Mateebe's forefathers, or the Matchap- 
pees, but settling in the country connected with 
the Krooman River, which from time immemorial 
had been considered as belonging to the Mat- 
chappee kings, they have ever since acknow- 
ledged them as their superiors, by giving pre- 
sents, perhaps as a kind of tribute. There are 
only three small pools at Queese, from whence 
they obtain water. They say the town is not 
inferior in population to Lattakoo. 
None but wild Bushmen live in the Great 
Desert, and all its inhabitants have to dig for 
water. They are acquainted with seven places 
where there is a little water, lying nearly in 
a south-westerly direction, across the desert 
towards Namaqualand. These wells dug by the 
Bushmen have all names, viz. 1st, is Quee ; 2nd, 
Mobelway ; 3rd, Loochakawnee ; 4th, Malleesh ; 
5th, Tsooy ; 6th, Impatooqua ; [or, Belly of a 
Camel ;*] 7th, Sereebaw-Seemaletee. The sixth 
well is distant from the last five days' journey, 
and it is two days' journey from the last to Nama- 
qualand. Frequently all the oxen and dogs be- 
* Cameleopard, for the camel, properly so called, is unknown 
in South Africa. 
