Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-01-25
DISCOVERIES IN SOUTH AFRICA.

The Boston papers furnish the following items
of intelligence, gathered from Cape Town papers
to the 9th of November:
The from the interior shows that there considerable
turbulence prevailing among the different native soveegnes
tribes and that this fact was causing injury TO the settle
ways One of the frontier papers states that
somewhere about hundred lives were lost last by the
collision Of different savage tribes, and that similar results
will follow 10 years. if the mpetuosiy Of the bar
barous people be not restrained.
Messs Jarvie & Co and Mr.. G. ]. Nichols have deter
mined invest considerable amount Of capital in testng
suitable SCALE the capabilities Of South Africa cotton
producing county The spot chosen for this experiment is
the neghbohood Of the Umzinvoobo which place several
newly arrived emgran.s have already engaged pro-
ceed assist in the work. t.Is .s 81 e1..,
Discoveries daily making in regions beyond what was
denomnated the frontier. Among Others travellers have ar
rived from the Zulu country In places fertile
and beautiful with vegetation iuxuran in others the land
barren, with be for miles. The chief
food OF the inhabitants is milk, rice, and sweet potatoes
Ia place party Of travellers to the kraal of
Of the principal Zulu Chiefs styled by the natives En- Corzan
Here they Hospitality entertained for four days Cor
zan the chief eoced in the possession Of ftoenty ,cv all
of whom daily dismissed to the sbors Of the field,
ccpt avone dark beauty, who seemed exempt from this
uneminne occupation cup bearer, too figured at tho
festive board reminding the travellers Of Pharaoh and the
kings of ancient timesa tall, sawart native whose head
bound with large blue shawl, in Oriental style.
The natives black earthenare cups These cups
beautifully glazed and of such curious workmanship that
the travellers surprised to find that they were manuac-
tured by the natives The kraa hut OF the chief
rounded for miles with those Of his relatives About
hundred of these vassas summoned upon occasion
and dispatched hunt buaoes Large crops Of meaes,
potatoes and Ca seen well immense
quantities of sugar cane a H2au
Discoveries of considerable magnitude have according
the Cape Town Mail been shed the geography Of the
interior Of Africa The substance of that the great lake
before reported discovered in South Africa although receiving
the of several rivers has outlet 10 the About
days journey the north Of this lake, ridge of very
high mountains the continent and beyond it
rver system" commences, the all flowing to the
north, and ultimately to the ocean. , s3f IS .Lta
Il Of these streams says the accounts that Mo-
raleskae and bis tribe have made temporary resting place.
This chief twenty years ago. was in subsection to
Zulu tyrant named Chaka, residing the eastern coast
south Of the latitude Of twenty degrees Escaping from
the domination Of his mecess MASTER he fled with large
body adheens the mountains the northwest spread
ing devastation around him he passed. He driven
still further nohwad by the Booers who in their turD have
been pushed forward the advancing civilization Of the Eng
sh. Thus Moraeskare, with his fsrocous sgions have
been retiring continually towards the equator leaving behind
them deserted country, swept Of inhabitants by his destroy
ing march He has now aversed at least thousand miles
from the point which his wandengs commenced, at least
quarter of century ago. St his indeagabe pursuers
dog the steps Of the ereang hon. and have already begun
him from his latest lair in the centre Of the continent
The Cape Town Mail hazards the prediction that before
her quarter Of century shall have elapsed, the whole ine-
iior Of South Africa the equator will be occupied by civilized
communities Of the European rse, and probably under the
dominion Of Great Britain. Among the discoveries in the
land promise voEy M considerable quantities, and
many other articles Of commercial value.