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not the trouble of fowing any. The lofch bok and pigmy an- 
telope are common in this diftridt ; and buffaloes and rhi- 
nofcerofes haunt the thickets upon the banks of the Great Fifli 
River. 
All the difiurbances of Graaf Reynet have originated in this 
divifion. Its proximity to the Kaffers held out an irrefiftible 
temptation to the boors to wage v/ar againft them for the fake 
of plundering them of their cattle ; yet none of the boors are in 
better circurnfrances than thofe of Bruyntjes Hoogte'. The very 
man \A\o v/as moft adliive in promoting a Kaffer war, according 
to his Opgaaff^ had between 800 and 900 head of cattle, and 
more than 8000 fheep, all of v;hich, in their late difturbances 
with the Kaffers, he very defervedly loft. 
5. Camdehoo extends along the feet of the Snowy Mountains, 
from the drofdy to Bruyntjes Hoogte', and is chiefly compofed 
of Karroo plains, which, however, are extremely fertile in the 
chafms down which the ftreams of the mountains conflantly 
flow. The oxen are large and ftrong, and the fheep little in- 
ferior to thofe of the Snowy Mountains. The beautiful animal 
the gnoo is frequently feen bounding over the plains of Cam- 
deboo, and fpringboks and harteheejls are very plentiful. 
6. Zwarte Riiggens is a rough ftoney trad of country to the 
fouthward of Cam.deboo, very fcantily fupplied with water, and 
producing little except fucculent plants, among which are two 
or three fpecies of euphorbia. Few families are found in this 
divifion. 
