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SOUTHERN AFRICA. 
chiefly with a view to observe its natural history. 
Only a short notice of his journey has appeared 
in the Journal of the Royal Institution. On cross- 
ing the Orange river he found the aspect of na- 
ture, and of its productions, entirely changed. 
In zoology, he observed the manis ; a new species 
of rhinoceros ; several of the dog genus and of the 
feline tribe ; a lynx ; many of the genus viverra ; 
several of the murine kind ; the camelopardalis ; 
five of the horse genus, &c. New birds, lacertae, 
and serpents, were also found in great variety. 
Botany presented entirely a new aspect. The 
surface was commonly flat, and presented often 
plains of apparently boundless extent. In one 
place there was an immense forest of acacias, of 
which the inhabitants know not the termination. 
He penetrated one degree beyond Leetakoo to 
the frontier of a country which he calls Karrikarri ; 
but there his guides and attendants refused to pro-= 
ceed any farther. 
