Pkksidknt'.s Audrkss -Skct. F. 353 



{lU'scJu-yviiKj vail d^ Kaa]> dc Goede Hoop) was lung regardetl as the 

 standard woik on South Africa. 



The Re\'. Fran<j't>is Valentyn, " oorlatigs Kedienaar dcs Goddelyken 

 Wooi'd in Amboina, Banda, enz.," made fretjuent short visits to the 

 Cape on his way to or from the East Indies in 1685, 1695, 1705, 1714. 

 The information that he gives of the natives is full, and apparently 

 authentic, although evidently obtained at second hand. It may be 

 found at the end vi the last of the five handsome volumes of his Oo^t 

 Indii'ii (published Amsterdam, 1726) on the shehes of the Grahamstown 

 Reference Library. 



We must brietly pass over such transitory visitors to the Cape as 

 Fatlier Guy Tachard, a member of a Jesuit mission sent by Louis XIV 

 to the fving of Siam in 1686 ; the English mariners Cowley, Dampier 

 and Funnell (1686, 1690 and 1705 respectively), and PVan^ois Leguat, 

 deputed by Marquis de Quesne to found a Huguenot colony under 

 Dutch auspices on the island of Bourboji. None of these derived their 

 information of our natives, more or less scanty, fi'om any but the most 

 superficial personal information, or from the second-hand accounts of 

 their entertainers. The knowledge hitherto disseminated by Dapper, 

 Ogilby, and Kolben had found its way over Europe, and such a writer 

 as Smollett or Lessing shows that he is well posted in the habits and 

 customs of Hottentots and Caffres I A witty description of a Hot- 

 tentot wedding, attributed to Lord Chesterfield, appears in the 

 CoHHoitisenr of the period. 



In 1752 Ensign August Frederik Beulter explored the south 

 coast as far as the Buffalo, and introduces to us two new Hottentot 

 tribes — the Damasonqua and the Hoengeijqua ; vide BpJangrijke His- 

 torische Dokumenten uitgegeven door George McCall Theal, LL.D., 

 Kaapstad, 1896. 



In 1761 an expedition was sent by Governor Tulbagh under 

 Hendrick Hop north of the Orange River, with the object of visiting- 

 certain reported long-haired people called Damroqua. The explorers 

 advanced some distance into Great Namaqualand, without, however, 

 meeting these people, who were probably the Ova-Herero, but which 

 Hop reported as non-existent (in his Dagverhaal van eenen Landtoyt 

 naar het hinnenste van Afrika door het land der Kleine en Groote 

 Kamacfpias (1778)). Two of the party, Tielman Roos and Pieter 

 Marais, drew up a report on the more distant Hottentots who still 

 maintained a tribal existence, and showed their common kinship. 

 They enumerate the Comemaquas of the Camiesberg ; the Tradiamacjuas 

 or " women-folk " ; the Cabonas (Kafirs) of the Keina River ; the 

 Korikambis of the Cham River ; the Kemamaquas of the Fish River ; 

 the Birinas (Bechuana) : the Saraac<iua and the Gricquas. 



Towards the end of the century the accounts of men even of 

 scientific repute like Thunberg, Sonnerat and Sparrmann could add 

 little to what was by that time known of the original condition of the 

 native races south of the Orange River. Dr. Andreas Sparrmann, a 

 Swedish physician and naturalist, who accompanied Captain Cook in 

 1772-76, spent six months in 1772 and a year in 1775-76 at the Cape 



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