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system than many missionaries have done. The figure of 

 Livingstone kneeling dead by his camp bed in Ujiji — dead for 

 Africa and its tribes, for the removal of the plague spot of the 

 world, the slave trade — touches the mind with its peculiar 

 pathos ; but there is another name I would mention, who gave 

 his life for Africa, though, like Scipio, he died at home; who 

 gave it in studies of portentous magnitude and effect. The 

 mind reels at 'the thought of the 80 note-books of Bushman lore, 

 still (alas) in manuscript only, with which Dr. Bleek's indus- 

 try has endowed the South African library. What African 

 philology owes to this scholar and his family passes telling; one 

 of that family survives, as, I believe I am right in saying, the 

 only Bushman scholar in the world. Bushman paintings and 

 engravings are a special care to a learned lady of this Associa- 

 tion, but firsthand knowledge of their language depends upon a 

 single life; and again we must lament the lack of interest which 

 South Africa has taken in things Bushman, her unique contribu- 

 tion to philology, and the history of primitive art. 



I cannot conclude this part of my subject without a reference 

 to that veteran historian of equal industry, Dr. Theal, whose 

 contribution to South African literature it would be presump- 

 tuous of me to praise, especially as he too, thank God, still sur- 

 vives. 



One is thankful that here the succession is not entirely 

 broken, as younger historians are present to carry on the torch. 

 It is, strangely enough, upon a Rhodes chemistry chair that 

 Elijah's mantle seems to have fallen. 



Other sections may consider it unsuitable and even im- 

 proper to carry introspection to such an extent as to make past 

 contributions to itself the subject of a presidential paper. But 

 Section E, at least, need feel no squeamishness in this regard, 

 and for this reason — ^that (though the papers of all the sections 

 doubtless contains original research into branches of science 

 which have been worked for decades, if not for generations) 

 some of the founders of ethnology are still with us, and the 

 scientific study of the natives of this country and their language 

 is still very much in its infancy, or (shall we say?) in its embryo 

 stage ; and this Association, especially in Sections D and E, may 

 venture justly to say Pars magna fui. This is my apology for 

 proceeding to mention some of the contributions which it has 

 made to the scientific study of South Africa on the native side. 



IV. 



Mr. Hammond Tooke. as early as 1905, directed the atten- 

 tion of the Association (soon after her birth) to the subject of 

 uncivilised man south of the Zambesi, which in 1820 he divided 

 into five groups, viz., the Zulu-Xosa, Gvvamba. who tekesa (as 

 the Zulus say) in their speech, the Kalanga, Chwana, and 

 Herero — which last were identified as possibly the Mazimba of 

 early Portuguese writers. Mr. Tooke followed up this essay 



