TRAVELS IN 
19. The Hantam is a Table Mountain, rlfing from the fur- 
face of the Bokkeveld Mountain, on its eaftern extremity, and 
is furrounded by a number of farms that receive a fupply of 
water from rills ifiuing out of the bafe of the mountain. Horfes 
and cattle are the produce of the Hantam, and the former have 
been found to efcape a very fatal difeafe that is prevalent over 
the whole colony, by being fent upon the fummit of the Han- 
tam Mountain. The inhabitants of this divifion are liable to 
the depredations of the Bosjefman's Hottentots, againft whom 
-they make regular expeditions in the fame manner as from the 
Sneuwberg. 
20. The Khamies Berg is a clufter of mountains fituated in 
the middle of the country that formerly was inhabited by the 
Namaaqua Hottentots, at the diftance of five days' journey 
porth-weft from the Hantam, over a dry fandy defert almofl: 
deflitute of water. This clufter of mountains being the beft, 
and, indeed, almofl: the only habitable part of the Namaaqua 
country, has been taken polTeffion of by the wandering pea- 
fantry, who, to the advantage of a good grazing country, had 
the additional inducement of fettling there from the eafy means 
jOf inerealing their ftock of fheep from the herds of the native 
Hottentots, who, indeed, are now fo reduced and fcattered 
among the Dutch farms as fcarcely to be confidered as a diftmdt 
tribe of people. 
The copper mountains commence where the Khamlei"berg 
ends, the whole furface of which is faid to be covered with 
malachite, or the carbonate of copper, and cupreous pyrites. 
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