BARROW — THE BOSKUANAS. 34^$ 
Mr Barrow undertook another excursion int<5 
the country of the KafFres ; but as it led him ovei' 
nearly the same ground, our present limits will 
preclude our following him. 
Mr Barrow, in his second journey to the coun- 
try of the Kaffres, obtained some intelligence re- 
specting the nation of the Boshuanas. No steps, 
however, were taken to follow up this informa- 
tion, till an accidental combination of circumstan- 
ces brought that people fully into notice. In 
1801, as the colony laboured under a scarcity 
of cattle, Messrs Trutter and Sommerville, ac- 
companied by a draughtsman, secretary, several 
Dutch boors, and a body of Hottentots, were 
sent to find, if possible, a supply in some of the 
remote parts of the settlement. After passing 
the Great Karroo, they came to the country of 
the Bosjesmans, a few of whom they saw, exhi- 
biting those symptoms of extreme poverty which 
all travellers have remarked. Beyond them they 
came to the banks of the Orange river, which 
they found to be inhabited by a tribe of Hotten- 
tots, called Kora, or Korana, much superior to 
the Bosjesmans in circumstances and appearanca 
Though entirely unacquainted with agriculture, 
their flocks were tolerably numerous, and they 
w^ere more cleanly, active, and intelligent, than 
the more southern tribes. Here they ^riet a Bo- 
