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received of this people, that they are not the laft to the north- 
ward. He was told, " That they were of a kind and friendly 
" difpofition ; that their town was fo extenfive, that if a perfon 
*' fet out in the morning from one extremity, and travelled 
" to the other, he would not be able to return before the fol- 
" lowing day ; that this town contained many thoufand inha- 
" bitants ; that the people were very ingenious in carving of 
" wood, and that they had furnaces for fmelting both copper 
*' and iron ; that they were exceedingly rich in cattle ; their 
" gardens and lands were better cultivated, and their dwellings 
" much fuperior to thofe of LeetakooT The Damaras alfo, 
whom I mentioned in my former travels to be in poffeffion of 
the art of fmelting copper from the ore, as well as I could coiled: 
from report, are inhabitants of the Tropic ; and they are com- 
plete Kaffers, differing in nothing from thofe on the eaftern 
coaft. I fliould fuppofe, therefore, that a line drawn from the 
24th parallel of latitude on the eaft coaft, to the 20th on the 
weft, may mark the boundary, or nearly fo, between the Kaffers 
and the negroes. 
The late Colonel Gordon was of opinion, that a line from. 
Cape Negro, on the weft coaft, to Cape Corientes on the eaft^ 
marked the boundaries between the Kaffers and the negroes 5 
but in this he was obvioufly miftaken ; a line from thefe two 
points including Portugueze fettlements on both fides, that on 
the eaft coaft being known to be inhabited by the fame kind of 
ftupid negroes that are natives of Mofambique. Nor have we 
any reafon for fuppofmg that, by the Portugueze taking pof- 
feffion of Rio de la Goa, the Kaffers have, been driven in to- 
wards 
