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NEALE'S FOUNTAIN. 
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We departed about eleven a. m., after taking 
leave of Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton, who were to 
return to Lattakoo, and continued travelling over 
a bare plain, destitute of either trees or bushes, 
and without a drop of water, till six p. m., when 
we came to an excellent fountain that sent forth 
a copious stream, which ran to the eastward, 
while both the King and the Krooman Fountains 
we had left ran to the west. This fountain 
having no name to distinguish it, we denominated 
Neale's Fountain, after the late worthy Mr. 
Neale, of St. Paul's Church Yard, who, till the 
day of his death, was a sincere friend to the 
heathen world. 
We left Neale's Fountain at nine a.m., and 
halted about three miles to the south of it, on a 
rise in the plain, to examine a remarkable ex- 
cavation out of the solid rock. The circum- 
it would not have looked well in such to commit murder; but 
had he caught them, he would have killed them on the spot." 
It was likewise reported at Lattakoo, that immediately after we 
had liberated the Bushman who had been flogged, he hastened 
to get a share of the meat that had been stolen from us; that 
he soon formed a party, and stole four oxen from the Land- 
drost of GraafF Reynet, as he was proceeding to Lattakoo ; and 
that he escaped with the booty, but, in a short time after com- 
mitting this robbery, was killed by a Matchappee commando, 
when he confessed he had been concerned in all the late rob- 
beries of cattle from the people of Lattakoo. 
