Lot Essay
'On the 22nd June, Mr. Hoachanas arrived with Mr. Runcie's wagon from the Bay, and persuaded me to go out to Runcie's place at Anna Wood, about twenty-five miles to the north-west, where we arrived about eleven; the same night crossing the Swa-Kop six or eight times, and halting before the house under the most magnificent anna-trees (a kind of thorn) I had seen in the country. The river, all the way from Otjimbingue, presented a broad, level, sandy bed, with banks from three to five or six feet high on each side, and hills more or less distant.' (T. Baines, Explorations in South-West Africa, London, 1864, p.42)