to interrupt the text, short descriptions of them are added in thé
notes. These descriptions, however, are not intended as specific
characters, but are given merely as the more obvious or striking
features, in order to convey to the zoologist or botanist some idea
of the more remarkable objects. Neither was it thought requisite, in
the present work at least, to adopt every innovation in nomenclature
which, since the travels were commenced, these sciences have from
time to time undergone. These collections consist of above sixty
three thousand objects, inclusive of the duplicates, in every department
of the science. Out of two hundred and eighty nine quadrupeds
shot on the journey, a hundred and twenty skins, comprising eighty
species, were preserved. The collection of birds contains two hundred
and sixty-five different kinds. In addition to these results of the
expedition, are about five hundred drawings, the subjects of which
are landscapes, portraits, costume, zoology, botany, and a variety
of other objects.
The author’s views in travelling, were not confined to any particular
class of observation. As it was general knowledge which he
sought, so he has endeavoured to extend his researches to whatever
appeared likely to afford interesting information ; but in a country
still in a state of nature, and where art has done so little, the works
of the creation, ever delightful to all but those of a corrupt and
depraved mind, necessarily present themselves the most frequently
to notice. In the second volume, however, the investigation of
man in an uncivilized state of society, will be found to offer to the
contemplation of the philosopher, a picture not altogether undeserving
of attention, if the writer should be able by words to communicate
to others those feelings which he himself experienced, and
those impressions which his abode among the natives of the interior
of Africa, has made upon his own mind.
L ondon,
February, 1822.
CONT ENT S .
P reface ............. Pafij
C h a p te r I. Approach to, and arrival at, the Cape of Good Hope.............................. 1
II. Residence in Cape Town, and Rambles in the vicinity ............ n
III. A sketch of Cape Town and the Colony...................... ............................. 70
IV. A ride through Hottentot-Holland to the Warm-bath at Zwarteberg... 83
V. Visit to Genadendal....... ................................. gj........................ jqq
VI. Ride from Genadendal to the liot-spring in Brand Valley, and visit to
Tulbagh. ................. ?*?; 116
V II. Ride from Tulbagh to the Paarl, and thence to Stellenbosch ................ 136
VIII. Residence at Cape Town, and preparations for the journey..................... 14,3
IX . Journey from Cape Town to Tulbagh.......................................................... 172
X. From Tulbagh, through Hex-river Kloof, to the Karro Poor! ............. 189
X I. Journey over the Karro................................................................................... 210
X II. Journey through the Roggeveld to the borders of the Colony...« 253
X III. Journey from the borders of the Cape Colony, through the country of
the Bushmen, to the river Gariep..................................................... 285
XIV. Journey in the country of the Koras, from the Gariep to the Asbetos
Mountains.— Stay at the Kloof village.—And arrival at Klaarwater... 323
XV. Residence and transactions at Klaarwater; with some account o f the
settlement and its inhabitants...................................................................... 350
XVI. Excursion from Klaarwater to the confluence of the Nu-gariep, and
thence to the Ky-gariep............................................ 331
XVII. Occurrences on the banks of the Ky-gariep................................ 493
X VIII. Return from the Ky-gariep to Klaarwater. ................. 443
X IX . Residence and transactions at Klaarwater, till the end of the year 476
X X. Residence and transactions at Klaarwater, and preparations for resuming
the journey into the Interior...................................................... 506
XX I. Arrangements for a journey back into the Colony. — Second visit to the
village at the Asbestos Mountains. — And preparations for departure. 529
The Itinerary, and Register of the Weather..................... ................. -........ 555
Remarks on the map, and geographical observations........................................ 575
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