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fine trees of the willow of Babylon, or a variety of that fpecies, 
^kirted the river at this place. The oppofite fide prefented a 
very beautiful country, well wooded and watered, and plenti- 
fully covered with grafs, among which grew in great abun- 
dance a fpecies of indigo, apparently the fame as that defcribed 
by Mr. Maflbn as the candicans. 
The firft night that we encamped in the Kaffer country was 
near a flream called Kowjha^ which falls into the Great Fifli 
river. On the following day we pafled the villages of Malloo 
and Tooley^ the two chiefs and brothers we had feen in Zuure 
Veldt, delightfully fituated on two eminences rifing from the 
faid ftreamlet. We alfo pafled feveral villages placed along the 
banks of the Guengka and its branches, and the next day we 
came to a river of very confiderable magnitude called the Ke'if- 
kamma. Though no part of the colony we had yet paflied 
through could be compared to that portion of the KafFers' 
country which lay between the Great Fifh river and the Keif- 
kamma ; and though the huts of which the villages were com- 
pofed appeared to be perfed and in good order, yet no veftige 
of human induftry feemed to accompany them, nor any traces 
but the buildings, that might lead to fuppofe the country to be 
inhabited. In fa£t, during the two days we had travelled in 
Kafferland not a human being had made its appearance, except 
one of our interpreters with a Kaflfer chief, whom we met at 
the clofe of the fecond day, and who had been difpatched by 
the king to invite and to conduct us to his place of refidence. 
That 
