SOUTHERN AFRICA. 
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and serpents were also found in great variety. Bo- 
tany presented entirely a new aspect. The sur- 
face was commonly flat, and presented often plains 
of apparently boundless extent. In one place there 
was an immense forest of acacias, of which the in- 
habitants know not the termination. He penetra- 
ted one degree beyond Leetakoo, to the frontier 
of a country which he calls Karrikarri ; but there 
his guides and attendants refused to proceed any 
farther. 
VOL. H. 
