TRAVELS IN AFRICA. 
had beaten them oft' the field, and taken many of their 
cattle. 
We arrived, after fome time, at a lake of brackifli water, 
called by the Hottentots, Kys Giina Kie Katie ; each of thefe 
letters, which are accented, are pronounced v/ith a hard im- 
pulfe of the tongue ; at this place we flayed all the whole 
jiight of the firft of February. 
We intended, early the following morning, to profecute 
our intended journey ; but milling our cattle, our firft care 
was to difpatch our Hottentots in fearch of them. In a few 
hours one of the men returned and informed us, that they 
had been ftolen by the Caftres, that they had difcerned the 
prints of their feet, and faw, from tracing them, that the 
cattle had been driven towards a village belonging to a Caffre 
captain, whofe name was Mahhotie. We fent our meffenger 
to the other Hottentots, and ordered them to follow the path 
of the cattle till they found them, which they did. They re- 
turned with them towards the evening, and informed us that 
they were found a little way from the Kraal. One of the 
Caftres told them, they had taken the cattle by miftake, the 
evening being dark, they thought they belonged to the Hot- 
tentots with whom they had fought the day before. Though 
it was now late, we continued our journey about twenty miles. 
In the night we arrived at a place, called the K'a Cha Chow, 
which is one of the branches of the Bofliman's River, and 
where there was formerly a houfe belonging to our companion, 
Jacob Kock. 
