TRAVELS IN 
From the Bavian's river we made an excurfion, for the 
fecond time, into the Kaffer country, where we afcended the 
Kaka, the continuation of the firft range of mountains in the 
Sneuwberg. The fummit was broken into hill and dale, and 
the furface beautifully varied with patches of green grafs, and 
clumps of tall foreft trees. The thick and fombre foliage of the 
woods, throwing their deep fhadows into the hollows, con- 
trafted with the bright and lively green knolls of grafs, pro- 
duced a fucceffion of gleams and glooms that were extremely 
beautiful and pleafmg. No part of Africa had yet afforded fuch 
grand, pidturefque, and diverfified fcenery, as this commence- 
ment of a double chain of mountains, and the intermediate 
forefts, of which the eye, looking eafterly, could difcover no 
end. The trees that were moft plentiful were two fpecies of 
the Geel-hout^ or Yew, fome of which were from twenty to 
thirty feet in circumference, and fixty to feventy feet in length. 
The fummit of the Kaka mountain commanded a moft 
extenfive view of the Kaffer country, as far as the fea-coaft to 
the fouth, and beyond the refidence of the king to the fouth- 
eaft. The level plains over which the Kat and the Kaapna are 
feen to ferpentize, thofe plains where once the Ghonaqua nation 
tended their flocks and herds, now defolate, were laid as it were 
at the feet of the fped:ator. 
A number of rare and beautiful birds were feen about the 
forefts of the Kakaberg. Among thefe, one of the moft re- 
markable was the Cuculus Perfa^ or Touraco. This fuperb 
bird. 
