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Slavery, its pernicious effe&s - 47
Sneutuberg, mountains of,'their component
parts, and vegetable productions
- - - 246, 247
deftitute o f iHrubbery, and the reafon
247, 248
produ&ions of this diftri&, and its
advantages and inconveniences - 250
character of its colonifts - - 251
Soap, how formed at the Cape - 91
Soda, might be procured in abundance
at the Cape _ - 92
Soil, its fertility in various places - 135
Spiders, remarkable account of - 392
Spring-boh, deftroyed in great numbers
as game _ _ - 118
Springs, medicinal, noticed - 334. 355
Staaten, Ifland of, Settlement formed at
the, for the Southern. Whale-'
fifhery - _ . _ j
StalaSttes, account of a mafs o f - 3 1 1
Stream, hot, account o f , _ 7 3 , 7 4
Sugar-cane, wild and uncultivated - 67
T
'Table mountain, defcription of - 1 33
view o f its ft ratification - - 36
grand view from its fummit - 37
caufes of the phenomenon o f the cloud
on its fummit ^ - - * 39
Tatooing prevalent among the Kaffers - 216
Temperature, remarkable variation o f - 3 3 7
Thermometer, its remarkable variations 190. 238
probable caufe - - ib:
Thrujhes, many kinds of, in Southern
Africa _ - 224
Thunder-Jlorm defcribed - - 320'
Timber, kinds of, produced at thç
Cape - l 9>2 0.133.339
Timber—- p a g e
for building, fcarce and expenfive - 20
for fuel, mode of procuring - - •. ib.
Troglodytes, Bosjefmans referable the, and
eat the larvae of ants and locufts 282— 284
V
Vaillant, remarks on an afiertion of that
author - - 279, 280
liis veracity called, in queftion -r 1 360
criticifm on his books of travels - ib.
an erroneous affertion of, corrected - 382
. Vegetable produ&ions,' abundant - 24
account of a variety of them - 25, 26, 27
Villages, account o f fome in the neighbourhood
of the Cape - . 63, 64
Vines, culture o f - - - 23, 24
Vultures, various kinds of, mentioned - 26ij
Unicorn, figure of an animal refemblxng
it difcovered - - ” 313
confederations rendering probable the
exiftence of fuch an aUimal 313— 319
Viverra, various fpecies o f that genus
noticed - - 231, 232
W
Water, great want of, experienced
121.328-33 3
when a traveller may expeft to meet
with - _ _ 97
Weather, view of the, at the Cape - 40, 41
its mean temperature - - 41
Whale Ji/hery eftabliihed at the Cape - 32
Wild hog of Africa defcribed _ 303
Winds, prevalent at the Cape - 40, 41
Wine, Conftantia _ - 23
Winis o f the Cape, account o f - 64, 65, 66
Wood,'
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Wood, catalogue o f various forts of, in
thecolpn.y , , - ; -. 339, 340
Wool, African, o f what kind - 117
Z
Zamia cycadis, its fruit a fubftitute for
coffee - - - 189
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Zebra, remarks on the domeftication o f - 93
Zoology, general view o f the Cape - 2.7
Zuure Veldt, plains of, their vegetable
• produ&ions - - 188, 189, 190
Zwart-kop’s bay, fertility o f the country
around * - - 135
produ&ive o f excellent timber - 133
abounds in game - 138, 139
Zwellendam, diftridl 'of, its population .
and produce - 349, 350