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8. Ziiiire Veldi is an extensive plain country stretching 
from the Sunday River in Zvvarte Kop's Bay to the Great 
Fish River, and is the same kind of good arable or pasture 
]and as the plains of the Autiniequas division in Zvvellendam, 
but it is now exclusively in the possession of the Kaffers, from 
whom, indeed, it was originally taken forcibly by the boors. 
The great chasms towards the sea-coast, that are filled with 
thickets, abound in elephants and buffaloes ; and in the Great 
Fish River are, occasionally at least, a few of the hippopo- 
tamus or river horse. 
9. Bosjesmaiis River joins 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 small division at the north-eastern ex- 
tremity of the colony, almost entirely deserted on account of 
its proximity to several hordes of Bosjesman Hottentots. It 
was in the mountains that terminate this division that I found 
the drawing of the unicorn on the caverns. The hontebok, the 
eland, and the gnoo, are common in the Tarka, 
11. Sea-cow River and Rhinoscerosberg lie to the northward 
of the Snowy Mountains, and consist of detached hills 
rising out of extensive plains, and are well covered with 
grass. All kinds of game are particularly abundant in these 
divisions, and there is scarcely a species of antelope within 
the limits of the colony that may not be met with here. 
The inhabitants are in a state of perpetual warfare with the 
