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Title: Travels and adventures in southern Africa
Year: 1827 (1820s)
Authors: Thompson, George
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Publisher: (London H. Colburn)
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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borders of the Colony, he urged me to write im-mediately a full account of what I had heard and seen to the LanddrostStockenstrom, offering at the same time to forward my letter by express,while I myself proceeded direct to Cape Town by the way of Beaufort.Having acceded to this suggestion, I retired to rest at a late hour. 29.—The Veld-Cornet not only sent off my dispatches to Captain Stock-enstrom, but furnished me with an additional order to all the inhabitants ofhis district, to afford me every aid in tlieir power, and speed me on withoutdelay. Leaving this hospitable and active man, I proceeded through aparched Karroo country, obtaining relays at several places without delay ordifficulty ; but from the necessity of going from one boors house to another,for this purpose, my course was considerably lengthened in a zig-zag manner.I passed through prodigious flocks of springboks, spread over the plains asfar as the eye coiUd reach : the number it is impossible to estimate with any
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MIGRATING SPKINGBOKS. 149 nicety, but I suppose I saw at least 100,000 in the course of fifty miles.They were migrating from the great desert towards the Colony. In a thornyravine we also startled a few koodoos ; but the latter animal is usuallyfound in greater numbers on the banks of the Gariep and its branches, thanin the plains.* Stopped this night with a family of the name of Botha. 30.—Pursued my journey in a similar manner through a country of tliesame description, and reached, late at night, the encampment of a boornamed Burgers, who, I found, was related to the master of Arend, therunaway slave whom I met in the Bechuana country. With this person Imade arrangements for purchasing Arends freedom from his owner.f Thecolonists, as I came along, inquired anxiously if I had seen many spring-boks, and were much concerned to hear that they were advancing uponthem; for these beautiful creatures, when they spread over the inhabitedcountry in such migrations, are more dreaded than eve

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