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cattle to graze. Some of the inhabitants of Bruyntjes Hoogte 
had even gone amongft the Ghonaquas^ 3. tribe of people pro- 
duced between KafFers and Hottentots, but living under the 
former ; had taken pofTeffion of the choiceft part of their coun- 
try, well watered by two plentiful flreams, the Kat and the 
Kaapna ; had laid out the extent of ground that each meant to 
occupy ; planted vines and other fruits ; and, certain that the 
avaricious and unjuft views of the government would keep 
equal pace with their own, joined by twenty or thirty names 
that they contrived to mufter from different parts of the 
colony, they had the audacity to petition Sir James Craig to 
grant them, as an indemnification for their loffes by the Bosjef- 
mans and the KafFers, a fmall piece of ground on the Kaapna ; 
and that it would flill further oblige them if he could extend 
it to the Kat river. This fmall piece of ground is only about 
five-and-forty miles beyond the prefent boundary. The daring 
and impudent falfehoods on which the letter was grounded 
were eafily feen through by Sir James Craig, and their petition 
was very properly rejected. The eyes of the colonifls have 
long been direded towards the two rivers, the Kat and the 
Kaapna. A native voyager in this country, whofe mind 
feemed only to be occupied in hunting elephants, fhooting fea- 
cows, and colleding gold dufl, could not pafs without noticing 
this part of KafTer-land. In a Journal, which has been pub- 
lifhed by Captain Rio, it is mentioned : " We came to a vaft 
*' plain extending as far as a river called Kaapna, or fine mea- 
" dows, which name it highly merits from its delightful fitua- 
*' tion. The whole country is interfered with rivulets 
" capable of overflowing the adjacent meadows, and pofTefl^es 
" every 
