July.] AN ACCOUNT OF HOUKAY. 
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name was Houkay, or Little Lamb, son of 
Houkaying, or Very little Lamb. 
The following account of Houkay we received 
from his own lips. 
SOME ACCOUNT OF HOUKAY, 
Chief of the Houp Wild Bushmen; obtained 
from himself in presence of some of his people. 
HOUKAY is chief of a kraal of Wild Bushmen, 
situated in a district lying at the south end of 
Reyner Mountain, and about half way between 
Griqua Town and Lattakoo, including part of 
Aler's Plain. He and his forefathers have always 
resided at the same place. His people were 
formerly more numerous than at present, having 
been reduced by disease and by attacks from 
the Bootchuanas. He had never travelled farther 
to the north than King Fountain, (about twenty 
miles from the place where he now lives,) except 
once, when he carried a letter to the Missiona- 
ries at Lattakoo ; nor farther to the east than 
the Yellow River, where he went on a com- 
mando to steal cattle. After counting on his 
fingers, he confessed he had killed five men, 
either in fighting about game, or in revenge for 
their having murdered some of his friends. Here 
