*77&- . January. felves, in leaving the colonifts at peace, to purfue them and make flaves of them at their own lqifure. .... Another and more confiderable part o f this yellow-ikinned nation, is difperfed over a trait of country eleven days journey in breadth, and lituated more to the north than to the north-eaft o f the Vifch-riviers, near a river called Zomo, where fome of them are faid to be occupied in the grazing and rearing o f cattle. Small parties of Chriftians have, indeed, travelled through this country, and ihot elephants there unmolefted; yet they have thought it neceffary for their greater fecurity, to ihut themfelves up at night in their waggons, as in a caftle. T h e more confiderable rivers which run through the country of the Snefe-Hottentots, are faid to be only the following. fKamJi-fkay, fNu-fkay, Little Zomo, Great Zomo, at which latter another country belonging to a different nation commences. Thefe rivers are reported to flow from north to fouth and fouth-eaft, down towards the fea, whither they probably run all together through the country called Caffer-land, From t'Kau-fkay, or the great fiih river, to fKamfi-fkay, or the white river, they reckon feven days journey; every day’s journey being reckoned at above forty- five miles, or eight hours brifk driving o f oxen without flopping. From thence to fNu-fkay, or the black river, it is reckoned one day’s journey. From hence to Little 1 Zomo, or the little Watery-eyed river, it is two days journey ; and from this to Great Zomo, or the great Watery-eye, it is half a day. In this river, which is one of the largeft, there is faid to be a great number o f green ftones, fome of which the perfon who gave me this information, carried with with him to the Cape, and fold them to a dealer there, Who fold them again,-and made prefents of them to travellers. They were, in all probability, of very little value. On the other fide o f Zomo dwells another nation, who, by the 'Snefe-Hottentotsy are called Lambukis, and are faid by them to refeinble themfelves in complexion and drefs, but to be a powerful and warlike people. Adjoining to this nation, towards the north, there is, according to them, a ftill more Warlike and intrepid people, whom they call Mambukis. Such colonifts as have vifited Zomo-river, have obferved, about two days; journey to the northward of it, a mountain that threw out a great quantity o f fmoke. The Snefe-Hottentots informed me, that the Tambukis had furnaces there for the purpofe o f fmelting a fpecies o f metal, which they forge and make into ornaments o f various kinds, hiring the Snefe-Hottentots to carry in the wood which they ufe in thefe fmeltings. I have frequently feen the Snefe-Hottentots at Bruntjes-hoogte with ear-rings of this metal, and o f the form exhibited in Plate I. Vol. I. fig. 8 and 9. H In external appearance they refemble piftole gold; but from the affay made on one of thefe rings by M. Von E n g s t r o e m , counfellor o f the mines, they appear to be merely a mixture o f copper and filver. That Angular animal, the unicorn, which is ufually re- prefented like a horfe with a horn in its forehead, has been found delineated by the Snefe-Hottentots on the plain fur- face of a rock fomewhere in that country, though in as an uncouth and artlefs a ftyle, as might naturally be expected from fo rude and unpolifhed a people. J a c o b K o k , that great traveller and attentive obferver of nature, whom U 2 I have 1776. January.
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