. Travels and adventures in southern Africa. ner. But to the north and east of the Tambookie nationare other tribes, who seem to be in a state of commotion, and to be hostilelyimpelled upon the Colony by the warlike and marauding hordes beyondthem. A few days before my arrival, three fugitives from some tribe,entirely unknown to the colonists, were found in the Tarka, and were madeprisoners with some difficulty, and sent down to Cape Town. It wasascertained from them that they belonged to a remote country north fromTambookie land, from which they had been several moons in travelling;and that t

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. Travels and adventures in southern Africa. ner. But to the north and east of the Tambookie nationare other tribes, who seem to be in a state of commotion, and to be hostilelyimpelled upon the Colony by the warlike and marauding hordes beyondthem. A few days before my arrival, three fugitives from some tribe, entirely unknown to the colonists, were found in the Tarka, and were madeprisoners with some difficulty, and sent down to Cape Town. It wasascertained from them that they belonged to a remote country north fromTambookie land, from which they had been several moons in travelling;and that their country had been overrun and plundered by a numerous andfierce nation who press upon them from the north and east. I have got inmy possession their weapons, which are merely assagais of a somewhatlighter construction than those of the Caffers. I shall hereafter revert tothe discussion of the disturbances among the native tribes, and bring downthe details I have collected respecting them to a more recent period. SNEEUWBERG MOUNTAINS. 39. CHAPTER IV. JOURNEY OVER THE MOUNTAINS. — DESCRIPTION OF THE TOWN OFGRAAFF-REINET.—THE LANDDROST STOCKENSTROM.—CONDITION OFTHE SNEEUWBERG BOORS. — JOURNEY ACROSS THE SNEEUWBERGRIDGE TO THE NORTHWARD. May 22.—Having been provided by Captain Harding with freshhorses and a guide, I proceeded towards Graaff-Reinet, to which my roadnow lay south-west over part of the Sneeuwberg range of mountains. Themountains in view were mostly of the tabular conformation, and some ofthem assumed very regular and curious shapes. I saw at a distance the 40 INQUISITIVENESS OF THE INHABITANTS. elevated peak called the Taay-Bosch-Berg, a singular hill resembling acylinder placed upon a cone. The country through which I passed abound-ed with springboks and ostriches. At three oclock, p. m. arrived at theVeld-Cornet, an Wyks, close under the Agter-Sneeuwberg, where I stoppedfor the night. I had still thus far the company of the Great Fish River, but it had