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THIRD JOURNEY. 
Caffrarla quite unknown to Europeans — Channa "Lands Height — Well cultivated 
farm of Okker Hyn?is — Longe Kloaf — Crooked River — Camtours Rivier — 
Forrejl of Mimofa — Lorie River — Van Stadds River — Curious plants and 
animals — Defcription of the Hartebeeji — Zout Pan^ a curious fait lake- — 
Total negleSl of agriculture in this country — Wild Dogs — Sondays Rivier, 
nine hundred miles from the Cape — State of the Dutch boors in this country 
— Sa7jd Fleet — Chonacquas — Wars between the Chonacquas and Caffres — 
Cattle ftolen by the Caffres — Great Fijh River — Curious plant — Hunting 
the Buffalo — Difficulty of croffng the woods — Extenfive profpedi of the Indian 
Ocean, — Caffraria j hofpitality of the people — Mariners of the Caffres — 
King of the Caffres ; his palace and rural ftate ; hofpitality and generofity 
of this monarch — Curious manufaBures of Caffraria — Method of making 
bread fro?n the pith of the palm tree — FaBion among the Caffres — Defcrip- 
tion of the country and people — Soil and climate — Adventures on returning — 
Klow fcknefs among the cattle. 
IN my third journey It was my fortune to traverfe a part ^ 
of the continent of Africa, which never had been vifited < — » — • 
before by any European ; nor do I know that any traveller 
has fince been permitted to vifit it, I mean Caffraria. So 
jealous are thefe people of the incroachments of the Dutch, 
(who are the only Europeans they are acquainted with) that 
they fl:ri8:ly prohibit individuals from entering their territor^^ ; 
while its remotenefs has prevented the States, or the Com- 
pany, from confidering it as an object of conqueft. I was not, 
however, deterred from the attempt by the difficulty of the 
undertaking ; and with this great obje£l in view, I fet out from 
Cape Town, on the twenty-third of December, and proceeded 
