LIFE OF C. KOK. 269 
He thought it had been dry or drying- up for the 
last twenty-eight years. He gave a similar 
account of the Nokannan, whose deep channel 
lies to the south of the Krooman, in the same 
desert. 
About thirty years ago there was the highest 
rise of the Great Orange River he had ever seen. 
Upon that occasion it had brought down the 
seed of the kurree thorn-tree, which was unknown 
before in those parts ; but after the river retired 
within its banks, these trees grew up on the sides 
of the hills to which the flood had extended. 
When his sons arrived at manhood, and one 
of them (Adam) was appointed and acknowledged 
a captain of the Griquas, he went to the western 
side of Africa, where he obtained a farm called 
Silver Fountain, situated on the limits of the 
colony in that direction. Having some of the 
blood of white men in him, like them he seemed 
to have a predeliction for being a colonial boor. 
After remaining a few years at Silver Fountain, 
and finding- old age approaching, he felt desirous 
of spending the remainder of his days in the midst 
of his children and children's children. Selling 
therefore his farm, he returned with his followers 
and flocks to the Griqua country, and took up 
his final residence at the village of Campbell. 
He is now evidently breaking up— a splinter 
