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THIRD JOURNEY. 
Caffraria quite unknown to Europeans—Channa Lands Height—Well cultivated 
farm of Okker Hynns—Longe Kloaf—Crooked River—Camtours Rivier-^ 
Forreji of Mimofa—Lorie River—Fan Stadas River—Curious plants and 
animals—Defcription of the Hartebeeft—Zout Rmiy a curious fait lake^ 
L’otal negleB of agriculture in this country—Wild Dogs—Sondays Rivier, 
nine hundred miles from the Cape—State of the Dutch boors in this country 
—Sand Fleet — Chonacquas—Wars between the Chonacquas and Caffres-— 
Cattle fiolen by the Caf'res—Great Fijh River—Curious plant—Hunting 
the Buffalo—Difficulty of croffng the woods—Extenfve profpedi of the Indian 
Ocean^ ^c,—Caffraria ; hofpitality of the people—Majtners of the Caffres — 
King of the Caffres ; his palace and rural fiate ; hofpitality and generojity 
of this monarch—Curious manufadlures of Caffraria—Method of making 
bread from the pith of the palm tree—Fablion among the Caffres.—Defcrffi 
tion of the country and people—Soil and climate—Adventures on returfiing — 
Klow fcknefs among the cattle. 
I N my third journey it was my fortune to traverfe a part 
of the continent of Africa, which never had been vifited 
before by any European ; nor do I know that any traveller 
has fince been permitted to vifit it, I mean Caffraria. So 
jealous are thefe people of the incroachments of the Dutch, 
(who are the only Europeans they are acquainted with) that 
they ftridly prohibit individuals from entering their territory; 
while its remotenefs has prevented the States, or the Com¬ 
pany, from confidering it as an objed of conqueft. I was not, 
however, deterred from the attempt by the difficulty of the 
undertaking ; and with this great obje£l: in view, I fet out from 
Cape Town, on the twenty-third of December, and proceeded 
1779. 
December. 
