224 KONING AND KROOMAN FOUNTAINS [1820. 
property Mr. Moffat had left behind him, was 
one of our travelling party. 
As the Koning [or King] Fountain was reported 
to be well fitted for a mission to the Reyner- 
mountain Bushmen, on the west, and also to 
those living on Aler's plain, towards the Malala- 
reen River, on the east, we had resolved upon 
visiting that fountain on our way to the Griqua 
country, which was situated to the eastward of 
both the roads, by which I had formerly gone to 
Lattakoo. 
At six p. M. we halted at the Krooman Fountain, 
in the neighbourhood of which we found three 
Bushmen families, who seemed to possess no- 
thing but their miserable huts ; yet I doubt not, 
had I been able to understand their language, 
and to converse with them,, I should have found 
that they were not without some enjoyments. 
We left Krooman Fountain at ten a.m., and at 
six p. M. halted at a clump of trees near Little 
Koning, or King Fountain, where we found great 
abundance of fire-wood 
. At nine a.m. we walked forward before the 
waggons to view the land about the Great-King 
Fountain, so long considered at Lattakoo as a 
good station for a Bushman mission. The scenery. 
