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9. Bosjefmans River ]o\n% the Zuure Veld to the northward, 
and is a dry hilly country without any verdure, except in the 
hollows. It is thinly inhabited. 
10. The Tarka is a fraall divifion at the north-eaflern ex- 
tremity of the colony, almoft entirely deferted on account of its 
proximity to feveral hordes of Bosjefman Hottentots. It was 
in the mountains that terminate this divifion that I found the 
drawing of the unicorn on the caverns. The bonteboh^ the 
dand^ and the^;/oo are common in the Tarka, 
1 1. Sea-cow River and Rh'inofca'ojherg lie to the northward of 
the Snowy Mountains, and confifl: of detached hills rifing out of 
extenfive plains, and are well covered with grafs. All kinds of 
game are particularly abundant in thefe divifions, and there is 
fcarcely a fpecies of antelope within the limits of the colony that 
may not be met with here. The inhabitants are in a ftate of 
perpetual warfare with the Bosjefmans, and are frequently 
obliged to defert this part of the country. 
12. Zivarte Berg IS 2l portion of the mountain of the fame 
name in the difS;ricl of Zwellendam, to which, indeed, this alfo 
ought properly to belong. Sheep and horned cattle are the chief 
produce of the farmers. 
13. Nieiiwveldt and the Ghcwp are alfo portions of the moun- 
tains of the fame names, in the Stellenbofch diftrid, and extend 
from thence to the Sneuwberg. They are occafionally deferted 
on account of the incurfions of the Bosjefman Hottentots. 
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