SOUTHERN AFRICA. 
fectly known, as to render it desirable, in their case, 
to collect all possible information. 
In entering the country of the Boshuanas, Lich- 
tenstein and his party were accompanied by a na- 
tive of the name of Kok. The first whom they 
met were some shepherds lying under the shade of 
a lofty Giraffe tree. They immediately went to 
meet the travellers, and addressed them with Mor- 
ra, borrowed from good morrow, which they had 
learned from the missionaries. At sight of Kok, 
they testified their joy by loud laughter and clap- 
ping of hands. M. Lichtenstein, who, we know 
not why, had conceived the most dreadful appre- 
hensions from the character of the people, was 
much reassured by this interview, and still more 
when they met another party, whose tender inqui- 
ries after some of their countrymen who had ac- 
companied Kok, and pathetic lamentations over 
two who had died, gave the most favourable im- 
pression of their gentle and humane dispositions. 
Our travellers, therefore, proceeded without appre- 
hension, and soon came to a village, where they 
were received with the same frankness and cordia- 
lity. The natives, and particularly the females, 
shewed here peculiar readiness in helping them- 
selves to tobacco, and to the provisions which the 
travelling party spread out for dinner. Soon after 
their departure from this village, they crossed the 
river Kuruhman, and, by a winding path through 
