executed stone circles. The various gullies between,
the rocks are carefully walled up, and you pass from
one collection of huts to the other through low"
entrances in these walls. There is no doubt about
it, that these people here possess an inherited knowledge
of stone building .which exists nowhere else in
Kaffirland, unless it be amongst the Basutos, who, I,
am told, are skilled in stone building, and who, at a
not very remote period, are believed to have migrated
from this very country. It seems to me hardly possible
that the gigantic buildings of Zimbabwe and
places in this country can have existed in their m idst,
without th e ' inhabitants making some attempt to-
copy them; and here we have an imitation, though,
a poor one, in the heart of what was the strongest,
chiefdom of the country.
The aspect of the country is here very curious,,
the high level plateau (it is about 5,000 feet above
sea level), is, as it were, closely sown for miles around
with rugged granite kopjes, some only fifty feet high,,
whilst others reach an elevation of several hundred feet.;
They are very, evenly arranged, too, as if they were the-
pieces for a cyclopean game of chess. Through this-
region we passed, and at the eastern end of it we-
reached our destination, Chipunza’s kraal, where we
proposed to halt for a day or two.. Chipunza’s is a very
large village, built on a gentle rise on the right bank,
of the Eusapi Eiver, with huts packed away into all
sorts of snug corners amongst the rocks. Immediately
below these, and within easy reach of the river, we
pitched our tents. It was .a great disappointment to