360 Report S.A.A. Advanckment of Scu'-nck. 



tribes. In 1834 he left Natal for the Old Colony, where he served as 

 interpreter to the Britisli troops in the Kafir wars, and in 1836 was 

 appointed as Government agent to the Tembii chief Mapassa. 



liater accounts of the Zulus were furnished by Dr. Andrew Smith 

 in his Rej)orf of an E.ipIoiiiKj Expedition into tjip Interior of South 

 Africa as far as the Limpopo (1836), when he visited Dingaan, Umsili- 

 gazi and some of the Bechuana chiefs ; anfl by Captain Allen Francis 

 Gardiner, who visited Natal with tlie object of paving the way to the 

 establishment of missionaries among the Zulus, and who describes 

 his sojourn at Dingaan's kraal in his Narrative of a Journey to the 

 Zooht Country in Sonth Africa (1836). 



Captain Gardiner, who was a naval otticer, is perhaps elsewhere 

 than in South Africa better known as the Patagonian missionary 

 pioneer. He made many attempts to establish missions in Chile and 

 Patagonia, and ultimately, as the outcome of a disastrous expedition 

 to Tierra del Fuego, died there in 18.51, it is thought of star\ation. 



Another officer of the navy, Captain F. W. Owen, in his Xarrative 

 of Voyages to explore the Shores of Africa, Arabia and Madaijasrar, 

 about this time (1833) gives some information as to the wars of 

 Tshaka and of the Zulus or VatwahK, as he calls them ; as also in 

 his official reports 1823-25, published in 'J'heal's Recordx of Soi'fh- 

 Eastern Africa, vol. ix. An officer of the French navj', M. Adulplie 

 Delegorgue, a native of Douai, who resided with the Boers in the 

 years 1838-44, gives a description of the natives in his Voya<te dans 

 VAfrique Anstrale, notamment dans le Territoire de Natal, dans cehn 

 dea Cafres Amazoulons ft Makatisses (1847); extracts translated from 

 this work appear in Bird's Annals of Natal. 



The American Board of Missions made Natal especially their field 

 of operations, and their records are adorned with such names as Lindley, 

 AVilson, Champion, Adania and the Grouts. To the Kev. Levis Grout, 

 missionary at Umsunduzi, philology is indebted for a Grammar of the 

 2^idn latiyuaye ; The Isiznln. 



Messrs. Dohne, Liefeldt and Posselt of the Berlin Mission have 

 also contributed much to our knowledge of the Zulu and Xosa dialects; 

 so also have Bishops Colenso and Callaway ot the Anglican Church : 

 but the mission work of both the Anglican and Koman Churches 

 amt)ng the natives of South Africa only began at the date which we 

 have imposed on ourselves as tlie limit to these notes. It is needless 

 to do more than refer to such names as Callaway and Torrends. 



Researches in the life history and language of the west coast 

 natives conmience with the labours of H. Schmelen, who founded a 

 station of the London Mission at Bethany, north of tlie Orange River 

 in Great Namaqualand as early as 181.5, and who translated the four 

 Gospels into the Namaqua language. Their habits and customs are 

 described by the Rev. Barnabas Sliaw, author of Memorials of Southern 

 Africa (1841), who established a Weslevan mission at Kamiesberg in 

 1816. Later on th(> scene came tlie members of the Rhenish Mission, 

 founded in 1828. Such were (1) G. Wuras, author of a Coranna 

 grannnai- : (2) Josaphat Hahn, whose valuable philological and ethno- 



