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TRAVELS IN 
baked earthen ware, fometimes in fingle nodules of an inch or 
two inches diameter, but more frequently in clufters of two, 
three, or four nodules, conneded by necks which are alfo hol- 
low. In thefe ftones every fhade of color is faid to have been 
found, except the greens j but the moft common are thofe of 
a pale yellow and chocolate brown. The country people know 
them by the name of paint-Jlones^ becaufe the powders they 
contain, when mixed up with oil, make very good paint, with- 
out any fifting or further preparation. 
On the upper part of the Bosjefman's river we received a 
vlfit from the chief of the Ghonaquas, followed by the lafl: re- 
mains of this mixed tribe of Kaffer and Hottentot, confifting of 
about a dozen people. The prediction of Vaillant concerning 
this horde has turned out but too true. The name of Ghona- 
qua, like thofe of the numerous tribes of Hottentots now ex- 
tinct, is juft on the eve of oblivion. Driven out of their ancient 
poireffions in the Zuure Veldt by the colonifts, they yet found 
an afylum from the father of Gaika, in one of the moft fertile 
diftrids of his kingdom, watered by the river Kaapna : here 
they were fuffered to remain in quiet till the late difturbances 
among the KafFers, occafioned by the refufal of Zambie to yield 
to his nephew the power of the government. Unwilling to ad, 
or undecided which part to take, they became a common 
enemy ; and thofe who remained in the country were plun- 
dered and maffacred by both parties; whilft thofe who fled 
acrofs the Great-Fifh river met with the fame treatment from 
the Dutch farmers of Bruyntjes Hoogte. Some fought refuge 
in the plains of Zuure Veldt, and were there plundered by the 
emigrant 
