THIRD JOURNEY. 
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Kock. The country here is extremely beautiful and piOiu- 
refque, very hilly, and the hills are fhaded with impenetrable '—v-— 
woods ; the vallies well watered and covered with grafs, which 
affords excellent paRure for cattle. Great numbers of quadru¬ 
peds inhabit this neighbourhood, fuch as Idons, Panthers, 
Elephants, Rhinocerofes, Buffiloes, Spring Bocks, &c. At a 
little diftance to the eaftward are fome Kraals belonging to the 
tribe of Hottentots, called Chonacquas. Thefe people are 
much darker in their complexion, and better fliaped than any 
of the Other tribes I had before feen. Whether this difference 
arifes from their mixins: with the Caffres, feveral of whom 
dwell in this part of the country, or from any other caufe, I 
could not afcertain. It is not very uncommon for the Caffres 
and Chonacquas to quarrel, which generally ends in an engage¬ 
ment. In thefe encounters feveral hundreds of the Caffres 
fometimes unite to oppofe their enemies, who very feldom 
bring a proportionable force into the field. But the dexterity 
with which the Hottentots ufe their bows and arrows, and the 
praflice of poifoning the latter, render them very dangerous 
enemies to thofe who only ufe the Haffagai. The difputes 
between thefe people generally originate about cattle, of which 
both nations are extremelv avaricious. 
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AVe direded our courfe eaftward, to the Bofliman’s River, 
and at noon I vifited a Kraal belonging to a Hottentot cap¬ 
tain, called De Royter. This man has upwards of two hun¬ 
dred Hottentots and Caffres in his fervice, and a few hours 
before our arrival, had fought againfl a number of Caffres, 
