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TRAVELS IN 
various kinds, the feeds of the Strelitzia Regince, and the pith 
of a large palm to which botanifts have given the name of 
Zamia. I obferved alfo large tuberous roots, each the fize of a 
man's head, of a fpongy iubftance and an auftere pungent tafte, 
but I was not able to trace the plant of which they were the 
roots. They rarely kill any of their cattle unlefs on particular 
occafions. They polTefs no other domeftic animals to yield 
them food. In the whole Kaffer country there is neither flieep 
nor goats, pigs nor poultry. They cultivate no kind of grain 
nor vegetables on this fide of the Great Fifh River, and. 
very little on the other fide ; but the Kaffer tribes, more to the 
weftward, are very confiderable horticulturifts. The commif- 
fioners, fent out by the Britifh government in the year i§oi, 
to endeavour to procure a fupply of draught oxen, found ex- 
tenfive fields of a fpecies of Holcus near the city Leetakoo^ the 
capital of a tribe of Kaffers called BooJJjooanas^ fituate at the 
diftance of fixteen days' journey beyond the Orange River, in. 
the diredlion of north-eaft from the Cape. 
In the official report of the commiffioners, delivered to Ge- 
neral Dundas, their entrance into this city is thus defcribed :— - 
" Faffing through feveral large tradts of ground, that were laid 
" out and cultivated Hke fo many gardens, we arrived about 
" noon at the city of Leetakoo^ not a little aftonifhed to find, in 
" this part of the world, a large and populous city. We pro- 
** ceeded to the refidence of the chief, whofe name was Moo- 
" liahan^ where we found him, with the elders of the place, 
*' feated on a plain that was enclofed with wood .. . . he offered 
*' us fome curdled milk. After the reception he conducted us 
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