Grea/tng the body, utility of in warm
countries - 156
Great Fi/b river, account o f - 185, 186
Frequented by Hippopotami - ib.
Guajacum Jfrttm o f Linrte, its feeds eaten
by the Kaffers - - 189
H
Hartebeejl, o f the family o f .antelopes,
defcribed
Hemifphere, Southern, "probably o f larger
dimenfions than the northern
Hemp, fubftitute for, ufed by the Hottentots
might be cultivated with great benefit
at the Cape
Hippopotami, very numerous m the rivers
of Africa - - .
eat nothing that waters afford-
how deftroyed by the' Kaffers
probably the Behemoth of Job
Hottentots, make little oppofition to the
eftabliflunent o f the Dutch colony
. how deprived o f their lands
almoft to a man in a date of fervitude
to the Dutch
their probable extin&ion - -
-caufes of their decreafe enumerated -
inhumanly treated by the Dutch
flogging them by pipes, what
regulations, in their favour difregarded
their marriages often barren
• depreffed by melancholy - -
, their inftruments o f mufic
their ancient weapons - 149,
no traces of the cuftoms defcribed by
old travellers - •
187
360
344
408
186
ib.
210
295
7
' ib-
144
tb.
ib.
145
146
ib.
147
148
149
150
151
Hottentots—
poffefs many good qualities -
their indolence and gluttony
their manner of preparing food
their drefs -
their perfons defcribed
their difeafes few - _ .
their mode o f computing time
their numerals did not feem beyond five
iquickfighted
their language defcribed - 160-
no traces of religion among them
their numbers in the colony, and fer-
viceablenefs to the colonifts
their rapid diminution in num-
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160
162-
163
ib. -
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expertnefs at tracing animals by their
foot-marks - .
370.
- *35
Hovels of the Dutch peafants defcribed
I
Indicator, or honey bird, its nfeful employment
- . .
Infects o f the Cape
InflinS, confiderations on what is called
operates differently in the, birds of
Southern Africa and thofe o f
Europe
Journey acrofs the A rid Defert to Graaff
R'eynet - _ ,
mode o f performing it *
into the Bosjefmans* country, the
Author’s preparations for
into the Kaffer country -
into the Namaaqua country
Iron ore abounds in the mountains of
Africa - . ..
322
32
322
- 323
55
ib.
254
166
357
227
K
VAGE
Kaffers, preparations for viftting their .
country - - 166, 167
Kaffer women charaiterifed - - 168
their frank and agreeable manners - ib.
I men poffeffed of great ftrength and
fymmetry, - 169.204, 205
. inftance of their fuperior fize - 171
their drefs _. . - - ib.
, interview with fome Kaffer chiefs, and
converfation refpedting boundaries
- - 171—174
articles of requeft among the Kaffers 175
their ornaments - - 176
interview with, their king - - 193
articles of agreement that were the
fruit of the conference - - 195
" eharadter of. the Kaffers Vindicated,
and particular inftances of their
humanity related ’ - - 196, 197
perfon and chara&er o f the king 198-, 199
drefs of the females - - ib.
huts defcribed - - 200
their agriculture - - - ib.
their weapons - - - 201
their government and employments 202, 203
thofe of the women - - 204
a fine race of men, and the reafons - 205
do not, in perfon, refemble the negro. ib.
their marriages - 2 0 6
. crimes and puniihments. - - 207
their arts . - • . - - 208
rather a pafforal than agricultural
nation. - - _ 209
unacquainted with fiihing - . 211
probably of Arabic origin - - 2 1 2
pradtife circumcifion - - ib.
their religious notion? - 214,. 215
Kaffers— page
their notions in aftronomy - - '218
their language - - ib.
their funeral rites - - 220
hoftilities between them and the
Britiih troops- - - 230
Karroo, or Great Defert, journies
acrofs the - - 86. 327'
fufferings of. the party from want of
water- • : - - 328. 333
Kei/kamma river, its mouth - - 225
Khamies berg, winter more early, and
fevere in the - - 387
its inhabitants migrate into the plains ib.
Koranas, a tribe of Bosjefmans, their
predatory and quarrelfome difpo»
fition - - 403, 404
Kraal o f the Bosjefmans entered by furprife)
.... - - 270, &c.
its conftrudtion* and infide, account of 276
L
Language, o f the Hottentots, its ufe of
dental and palatial founds - 160, 161
often imitates the founds of objedfcs
expreffed - ib.
curious inftance o f this- 162
acquired by Europeans without much
difficulty ib.
of the Kaffers defcribed 2.18
lift o f fome o f its vocables, - 219
Lead, ore, vein of,, noticed 141
? its uncommon richnefs 142
Leopard o f the country defcribed 266
Lion, his infidious qualities J 29
his battles with the buffalo defcribed - 130
prefers the fleih o f the Hottentot, and
ofthehorfe - 265. 395
Lion