SOUTHERN AFRICA* 
being the common price of a wife. Polygamy is 
permitted, but, from the difficulty of purchase, is 
confined to the chiefs, who seek helpmates in pre- 
ference from among the Tambookies, a neighbour- 
ing tribe. Conjugal infidelity is rare. 
On returning from the CafFre country, it was 
resolved to undertake an expedition over the Sneuw- 
berg, or Mountains of Snow, to the north, with 
the view of observing this almost untrodden region, 
and the Bosjesmans, its savage inhabitants. The 
travellers, in their ascent, soon came to a cavern 
which had been inhabited by these people. Mr 
Barrow was much surprised to find here drawings 
of animals executed with an accuracy, as well as 
force and spirit, which would scarcely have disgra- 
ced an European artist. The materials were char- 
coal, pipe-clay, and the different ochres. Soon 
after, at the house of the Commandant of Sneuw* 
berg, he saw a Bosjesman prisoner, who described 
his countrymen as a truly miserable race, suffering 
. indescribably from cold and want of food, knowing* 
every nation around to be enemies continually 
planning their destruction, and never hearing a 
bird scream, without apprehending danger. 
The Sneuwberg presents an aspect of nature very 
different from the other tracts bordering on the 
Cape. It has the same foundation of blue schis- 
tus ; but the upper regions consist of horizontal 
strata of sandstone, without those quartaose masses,, 
