No. V. 
TRAVELS OF AARON, A FUGITIVE SLAVE. 
AARON became known to me whilst he was a slave 
in the colony during my former visit to Africa. Learn- 
ing that I had arrived in the interior, he came to me, 
when at Old Lattakoo, to solicit my interference with 
the person to whom he then belonged, that he might 
either be sold to the master he formerly served, or be 
allowed to purchase his liberty with elephants' teeth, 
which he expected to procure. 
He stated, that severe treatment from his master had 
determined him to abscond beyond the limits of the co- 
lony. He was two months on the journey from his 
master's house, north of Graaf Reynet, till he reached 
the Great Orange River, seventeen days of which he 
lived on the bark of the mimosa tree. His strength was 
so reduced by hunger that he could only proceed very 
slowly. On the 17th day he thought he must have 
died had he not shot a Guinea fowl. On reaching a 
Coranna kraal, on the Great River, he was so exhausted 
by the journey, that for eleven days he was hardly able 
to move from the spot on which he lay down. The Co- 
rannas treated him kindly, and he remained with them 
six months. 
Hearing that the Griquas had seized three fugitive 
slaves, and sent them back to the colony, he left the 
Great River and fled higher into the interior, to Long 
