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wandering inclination, and the fame propenfity to the chace 
and to plunder, with the other Bosjefmans. The Briequa 
Kaffers, who inhabit the coumry clofe behind them, are very 
confiderable fufFerers from fuch daring neighbours. Of thefe 
people, the Koranas not only carry off large herds of cattle, but 
they alfo feize and make flaves of their children, fome of whom 
have been brought into the colony, and purchafed by the far- 
mers in exchange for cattle. The Briequas, with their haffa- 
gais, have little chance of ftanding againft poifoned arrows. 
The fhields too of the Koranas are enormoufly large, and fo 
thick that the haflagai cannot penetrate them. I faw one 
made from the hide of an eland, that raeafured fix feet by four. 
Thefe people make regular attacks, in large parties of four or 
five hundred. Though very good friends among each other 
while poor, from the moment they have obtained by plunder a 
quantity of cattle, they begin to quarrel about the divifion of 
the fpoil ; and they are faid to carry this fometimes to fuch an 
excefs, that they continue the fight and maifacre till, like the 
foldiers of Cadmus, very few remain in the field, 
— — fuoque 
*' Marte cadunt fubiti per mutua vulnera fratres." 
The miferable bad roads, the nakednefs of the country, and 
the very few animals that are found in a flate of nature, upon 
the Roggeveld mountain, make it a difagreeable, uninterefting, 
and tedious route for one who travels with no other view than 
that of gratifying curiofity. Crows, kites, and vultures, are 
almoft the only kinds of birds that are met with. Of the laft, 
I broke 
