C.H.A.E . .11.
Military Expedition to the Kaffer Frontier.
OccafloK o f this Expedition— Affairs o f Graaf Reynet— Gordon's Bay Hottentot
Holland’s Kloof— Obflinacy of the Colonifls.— Cruelty to Animals, bad EffeBs of._
Palmiet and Bolt Rivers. — Itemperature o f Jhe A ir .— The Shoemaker's Hovel._
Rapid Vegetation after Rain— Plants fir jl appearing— Sweet Milk’s Valley— mild
Animats there.— Efiabli/bment o f Hernhuters or Moravians— good EjfeBs of—
Hottentots difcouraged by the Colonifls— Sir James Craiffs Tefimony of— other
Mffiotiaries.— Infance o f Zeal in M r . Kieherer— Refleftion thereupon.+rlnflame
o f favage Cruelty in the Boors— a Boor taken into Cuflody— Two o f our Dragoons
h fl in a River— Scarcity o f Water attempted to be explained from the Nature and
Antiquity o f the Mountains— FaBs adduced in P r o f o f the Theory .— Cape, Ifllomus
■ never covered -with the Sea— Reafons fo r fuch ConjeBure— L ’Aguillas. Bank once
Part o f the Continent.— Antiquity o f Africa— Mufele Bay--Chart and.Dffcnp-
tion of.— Crofs Attaquas Kloo f into Lange Kloo f.— Wine— Raiflns— Brandy—
all o f bad Quality— Experiment fo r making good Wine.— .Appearance o f Lange
Kloof— crofs the Mountains to Plettenberg’s Bay— Reafon -why Forefl Trees are more
abundant there than- elfewhere.— M r . Calender’s Account, o f the Knyina— and
furfounding Country— Condition o f a Cape Boor .— Anchor found on Table Mountain—
Plants near Pletienberg’s Bay— and Animals— Injlamenf..Ingenuity in a
deaf and dumb Mem— Appearance o f the Country between Camtoos River and
ATgoa Bay.— Engagement between La Preneufe 'W the Rattlefnake Changeff
Circumflances favourable .to the Boors— rebellious Boors fent to the Cape tried by'
the Court o fju flic e there— Corflitution o f this Court— bad CharaBer qf, undeferved.
Boors plundered by the -Hottentots— Juflification o f thefe People their cruel Treatment
by the Boors— Examples o f in a Hottentot Woman and Child cut with Shambocs
— in a Boy withlron Rings clenched on his Legs— Punifbment o f tpe Boor Another
Infance o f the fanguinaty CharaBer o f the Boors— its Gaufe explained— People
o f Cape Town— The Burgher and the Whale.— CharaBer and Mode o f Life
— tenacious of Rank.— Hottentot Corps— CharaBer of.— Condition o f the Slavesi—
Imprudence o f the Whites.— Adminif ration o f Jufice between the Whites and
1 - Blacks.
Blacks.— Rencontre with the Kaffer Chief Cango.— Comparifon between the Per-
fons o f Boors and Kaffers.— Reflection.— Food o f the Kaffers.— BooJhuanas.— City
- o f Leetaioo.— Conje&ure o f the Kaffer Origin— Extent o f their Country— their
Dogs not fubjeB to Canine Madnefs.— Small Pox not endemic in South Africa
Origin.of.— High Situations favourable to the Growth o f .Animals.— Uncommon
Inflance o f Bulk in a Woman— Fate o f this haplefs Creature.— Attack o f the
Kaffers upon the Britijh Troops— a wounded Kaffer taken.— Rencontre o f Boors
and Hottentots at Algoa Bay— Kaffers florm the Briti/h Camp Melancholy Fate
o f Lieutenant Chumney and flxieen Men.— Ill-judged ConduB of the Boors— Conferences—
Hatred o f Kaffers and Hottentots againfl the Boors— ConduB o f the
latter at Plettenberg’s Bay— Horrid Murder committed in Lange Kloof. Curious
Articles o f InflruBions propofed fo r the Boors in their Wars with the Kaffers—
Return to the Cape.— Change o f ConduB in the Colonifls— reconciled to the Britijh
Government— indifferent as to the Return o f their own— tittle RejoicingJbewn at
this Event—Reafons o f it—final Evacuation. - - Page 32
C H A P . in.
Importance of the Cape of Good Hope, confidered as a Military
Station.
Views o f the Briti/h Government in taking Poffeffton o f the Cape State o f that Colony—
Arrival o f the Britijh Forces— Behaviour qfthe Inhabitants— Capture o f the
Settlement—general Opinion o f its Importance— Plans fo r its Government.— Lord
Macartney appointed Governor.— Refolution of the Minifler.— CondUB o f the prefent
DireBors o f the Eafl India Company— compared with that ofthofe in the American
War.— Confequences o f our Failure in the Expedition againfl the Cape at that Time.
— Confederations propofed in a Treaty with.Holland in 1 787— Opinion o f Lord Macartney—
Holland not deflrous to have the Cape— Order o f the Eafl India Company
prohibiting their Ships to touch at the Cape—countermanded with regard to Ships
navigated by Lafcars— Condition o f two Regiments brought to the Cape in fuch Ships.
— Defign o f the following Part of this Work— Meaning of the Term Military
Station— Soldiers, what.—iImportance of forming Men previous to Embarkation.
— Inconveniences attending a Sea Voyage.— India notfavourablefor forming Recruits
into Soldiers.— A middle Station defirable.— Cape o f Good Hope, great Advantages
of