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have a much greater fcope, being able, I fhould fuppofe, with- 
out any motion of the head, to fweep from 260 to 270 de- 
grees. Of two varieties of this animal Mr. Daniell has made 
excellent drawings, in one of which the upper horn is almoft 
as large as the lower, and is pointed towards it. 
Having colleded the forces that had been ftationed along the 
banks of the Great Fifh River, we fet out upon our return to 
Algoa Bay. On approaching the Sunday River, and perceiv- 
ing that the Kaffers had made no preparations for departing, it 
was thought advifable to renew the raeflage to their chief Congo. 
In the mean time the troops and the waggons proceeded oa 
their march. After waiting fome time the meflenger returned 
without being able to fpeak to the chief. Whatever reludance 
Congo had difcovered to quit the llation he had t^ken up among 
the colonifts, it never entered into our calculations that he would 
be rafh and imprudent enough to commence an attack againft a 
large body of regular troops. Such, however, was the ftep he 
chofe to take, at the inftigation, as we afterwards found, of fome 
of the rebel boors, who had fled amongft his people, in preference 
of appearing before the General in Bruyntjes Hoogte. Juft as 
%ve came up with the m,ain body a fudden alarm was raifed in 
the rear. A Hottentot driver of one of the waggons was killed 
by a haflagai that had been thrown at him by fome perfoii 
potted in ambufh. Kaffers began to appear in great numbers 
on all the heights, collecting, apparently, with a view to attack 
lis; and feveral were obferved clofe upon us lurking in the 
bullies. Being at this awkward jundure in a narrow defile, 
choaked almoll with brufhwood, and furrounded with Kaiiers, 
we 
