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range of hills that were once well covered with foreft trees, 
but thefe have long been cut down, few of any magnitude now 
remaining, except in the deep chafms where they are fcarccly 
acceffible. The country, on each fide of the river, is extremely 
pleafant, and tolerably well inhabited, in comparifon at leaft 
with other parts; the dwellings being feldom removed from 
one another beyond the regulated diftance of three miles. A 
few of the fraall kind of antelopes ftill remain, as reehocks^ 
fpringbocks^ griejhocks^ and diiyhers^ and plenty of hares and par- 
tridges ; but the large hontehocks are almoft totally deftroyed, or 
driven to fome other part of the fettlement. I obfervedj in the 
former volume, that In the neighbourhood of this river was once 
to be found the Leucophcea or blue antelope, but that, for many 
years paft, It had been loft to the colony. I underftood, how- 
ever, that, a few months before we evacuated the Cape, a fmall 
herd of this beautiful animal had again made its appearance 
among the wooded hills behind Sweet Milk Valley, where, in- 
ftead of fuffering them to remain unmolefted, at leaft for fome 
time, the farmers were lying in wait for their deftrudtion. 
Clofe to this river is the eftabllfhment of the Hernhiiters or 
Moravian miffionaries, who, by the protection afforded them 
under the Britifh government, and its liberality, through Ge- 
neral Dundas, in enabling them to enlarge their territory, had 
fucceeded fo far, in the obje6l of their miffion, as to bring to- 
gether into one fociety, not fewer, at the time of the evacua- 
tion of the colony, than fix hundred poor Hottentots ; whom 
they not only inftruded in the principles of the Chriftian reli- 
gion, but by example, as well as precept, taught to feel, that 
their 
