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AFEIGA AND ITS EXPLORATION. 
lie started at the head of a caravan numbering nineteen 
persons. He also took thirteen dogs, one he and two 
she goats, three cows, thirty-six draught and fourteen 
reserve oxen, with two for carrying the baggage of the 
Hottentot servants. 
We shall not, of course, follow the traveller in his 
hunting excursions ; all we need to know is that he 
•succeeded in making a collection of marvellous birds, 
that he introduced the first giraffe to Europe, and that 
he traversed the whole of the vast space between the 
topic of Capricorn on the west and the 14th meridian on 
the east. He returned to the Cape in 1784, he em 
barked for Europe, and arrived at Paris early in January, 
1785. 
The first native people met with by Le Vaillant, in 
his second voyage were the Little Namaquas, a race but 
very little known, and who soon died out—the more 
readily that they occupied a barren country, subject to 
constant attacks from the Bosjemans. Although of fair 
height, they are inferior in appearance to the Kaffirs 
and Namaquas, to whose customs theirs bear a great 
resemblance. 
The Caminouquas, or Comeinacquas, of whom Le 
Vaillant gives many particulars, exceed them in height. 
He says :—- 
“ They appear taller even than the Gonaquas, al¬ 
though possibly they are not so in reality ; but the 
illusion is sustained by their small bones, delicate and 
emaciated appearance, and slender limbs. The long 
mantle of light material which hangs from the shoulder 
to the ground adds to their height. They look like 
drawn-out men. Lighter in colour than the Cape 
natives, they have better features than the other Hot¬ 
tentot tribes, owing to the fact that their noses are less 
flat and their cheekbones less prominent.” 
Of all the races visited by Le Vaillant, the most 
peculiar and most ancient was that of the Houzonanas, 
a tribe which had not been met with by any other 
northern traveller; 1 >ut they appear identical with the 
Bechuanas, although the part of the country assigned to 
