Phe.sidknt's Addkess— Sect. F. 359 



Africa, and Captain James Edward Alexander of the 42nd Higlilandern 

 in IS'M his Xarrative of a Voyncjp nviovrf the Cohniies of Western 

 Africa, and of a Campaupi in Ka,{firla)id on the Staff of the Com- 

 mander-in-Chief in 1835 ; but these works, although interesting, con- 

 tain little information that may not be gathered from preceding 

 works. 



The mission-field which the Wesleyan Society made almost pecu- 

 liarly its own was the region extending along the i^oast fronj Graham.s- 

 town to Natal and inland to the southern boundary of Basutoland. 

 Stephen Kay was among the earliest arrivals, and first he occupied 

 the pulpit of the Yellow Chapel in this city ; but in 1823 he initiated 

 the mission at Mount Coke. His TraveLs and Researches in Caffraria 

 (1833), though prejudicetl in political matters, is of value as an early 

 description of the unsophisticated Xosa-Kafir. To W. B. Boyce, 

 missionary to Faku the Pondo chief in 1830, and subsequently de- 

 puted to raise Mount Coke from its ashes, we owe the earliest Grammar 

 of the Kaffir Lantpuiye (1834), afterwarfls revised and improved by 

 W. J. Davis (1836). But above all stands J. W. Appleyard, whose 

 learned, scholarly and scientific contribution to philology, a Grammar 

 on the Kajfir LawpiOAje, comprising a sketch of its history, winch includes 

 a general classification of South African dialects, ethnogra])hical and 

 geographical (1850), first points us to the comparative study of the 

 Bantu languages. Mr. Apple3'ard at first was stationed at Mount 

 Coke, and his work was printed and published at Kingwilliamstown in 

 1850. At this time portions of the Scriptures were being translated 

 by William Shaw, author of 7^he Story of my Mission in South- Eastern 

 Africa (1860), and also by the Rev. Messrs. Boyce, Shrewsbury', John 

 Ayliff, Shepstone, H. Dugmore, Garner and Warner ; but Appleyard 

 earned the sobri(|uet of the " IVndale of KafFraria " by completing a 

 translation of the whole Bible into the Xosa dialect. 



Meanwhile a veritable "Tyndale," the Rev. H. Tindall, had been as 

 a Wesleyan missionary in Great Namaqualand translating the Gospels 

 and writing in English the first Grammar and Vocabulary of the 

 Namaqua- Hottentot Language, printed at Capetown in 1857. 



Soon after 1820 a few Englishmen, settled on the colonial frontier 

 not far from Albany, were impelled by a love of adventure to seek it 

 in Natal. Such were Francis G. Farewell, James Saunders King (both 

 formerly in the royal navy), Nathaniel Isaacs, and the Fynn brothers. 

 Their occupation was elephant hunting, in indulging in which they 

 came into frequent intercourse with the Zulu tribe and acquired a 

 certain amount of favour with Tshaka, who granted a large tract of 

 land to Lieut. Farewell. They learned from ancient natives the past 

 history of the native tribes, some of which has been embodied b}' Isaacs 

 in his Travels and Adventures in Eastern Africa (1836), with the 

 native words execrably spelt ; but the valuable material stored by 

 Henry Fynn appears for the first time in Mr. John Bird's Annals of' 

 Natal (1888). Henry Fynn resided in Tshaka's neighbourhood for 

 many years, opening up trade with the natives, and has given us many 

 interesting particulars of the early history of the Umtetwa and Zulu 



