. Travels and adventures in southern Africa. They are foundalong the whole course of the river, from the spot where I now was, upwardstowards its sources, as far as it has yet been explored by Europeans. Theyare divided into a great number of independent clans, or kraals, as they aretermed in the Colonial phraseology. The party I was now with enumeratedabove thirty of these, who, in their own language, are distinguished by differ-ent appellations, indicative of some peculiarity in the materials of their dress,or mode of subsistence. A chief or captain presides over each clan or kraal,being usu
. Travels and adventures in southern Africa. They are foundalong the whole course of the river, from the spot where I now was, upwardstowards its sources, as far as it has yet been explored by Europeans. Theyare divided into a great number of independent clans, or kraals, as they aretermed in the Colonial phraseology. The party I was now with enumeratedabove thirty of these, who, in their own language, are distinguished by differ-ent appellations, indicative of some peculiarity in the materials of their dress,or mode of subsistence. A chief or captain presides over each clan or kraal,being usually the person of greatest property ; but his authority is extremelylimited, and only obeyed so far as it meets the general approbation. Whenancient usages are not in the way, every man seems to act as is right in hisown eyes. They are a pastoral people, and some of their kraals possess largeherds of cattle, and also some sheep and goats. Their flocks of the latter,however, are not numerous, though they thrive remarkably well, and attain. HABITS AND APPKARANCE OF THE KORANNAS. 269 a large size. The difficulty of protecting them from the wild animals,*and of driving them from place to place in their frequent migrations,probably operates to prevent them from augmenting their flocks to anyconsiderable amount. Many kraals possess neither sheep nor goats, butonly cattle; and some few, as we have seen, having lost their cattle,have retrograded from the pastoral to the hunter, or Bushman state. The Korannas are ccmtinually roaming from place to place, accordingas the want of pasturage, or caprice, may dictate; and their moveable huts,composed of a few sticks, and a covering of mats, are carried along withthem on their pack-oxen, which are uncommonly docile and well-trained. Their language differs considerably from that of the Bushmen, but nearlyresembles the dialects of the colonial Hottentots and the Namaquas. Myguides, therefore, understood them with ease, while they could only und
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