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Tlu'iil's Cape R*>corch, gives ;ui instiuctive account «tf the visit to 

 Litliako, the chief town of tlie Batlapiu chief Molialabangwe. They 

 describe it as being as large as Capetown, with from fifteen to twenty 

 thousand inliabitants. 



One of the earhest and most prominent otticials under the now 

 regime was John Barrow, a man of exceptional ability and culture and 

 thoroughly imbued with the scientific spirit. Mr. Barrow (subsequently 

 Sir John Barrow, for many years Secretary to the Admiralty), was, 

 when selected to accompany Lord Macartney to the Cape, already 

 known as skilled in navigation, matliematics and the natural sciences. 

 Sent in 1795 on a mission to Gaika, his account of the country is 

 authoritative, and although the data supplied to him may sometimes 

 have been wanting in accuracy and coloured b}' prejudice, the opinions 

 he fcjrmed on them were impartial and judicial. At a period which in 

 Europe saw the dawn of anthropology as a science, it is significant to 

 see him in his Trarels into the. Interior of SotUhern Africa (1806), 

 speculating on the origin of the Kafirs, which he traces " to those 

 wandering Arabs known by the name of Bedouins, a people which are 

 known to have penetrated into almost every part of Africa." 



On general principles the views of the English Governor's private 

 secretary demanded criticism, and, if possible, confutation by a servant 

 of the Batavian Government, and Dr. Heinrich Lichtenstein, a medical 

 officer under Governor Janssens and Commissioner De Mist, in a work 

 of quite equal merit to Barrow's, Travels in Southern Africa (1812), 

 improves on his predecessor's theories by connecting the Kafirs witb 

 the tribes of the north coasts of Africa. They agree, however, in 

 believing that their ancestors may be found among the Abyssinians 

 and Ethiopians, a view not far removed from the latest hypotlieses on 

 the origin of the Bantu. Together, these valuable works, supple- 

 menting and correcting each other's deficiencies, present an exhaustive 

 account of what was then known of the native tribes. In an earlier 

 volume {A Voijage to Cochin China) Mr. Barrow inserts in the appendix 

 the account of Mr. Daniell, secretary to Messrs. Truter and Somerville, 

 of their "Journe\^ to the Bootshuana Nation." 



Another official of the Batavian Government, Captain Lodewyk 

 Alberti, Commandant at Fort Frederick and Landdrost of Uitenhage, 

 in -his De Kajf'ers aan de Ziiid Knst van Afrika (1810), gives us a 

 trustworthy description of the Xosa Kaffers in 1806; while of the 

 same tribe Colonel Collins gives us interesting data, mainly historical, 

 in Notes of a Journey in 1809 to Kajfraria and the Tky River ; but 

 his accounts of the Bushmen of the Zak and Orange rivers and the 

 Stormberg have a political or administrative, rather than ail ethnolo- 

 gical, interest. These reports, the outcome of troubles on the northern 

 and eastern frontiers, were published as parliamentary papers and are 

 reproduced in Theal's Cape Records, vols, vi and vii. 



Mr. William Burchell's sumptuous volumes, entitled Travis in 

 the Interior of Africa (1822), are replete with information collected 

 at leisure and at first hand by a cultured, capable and scientific 

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