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logical researches among the Heiero for the most part lie buried in 

 the Transactions of the Berlin Geographical .Society {/ieitxchriff der 

 Gettellfchaft /iir Enlkuude, Berlin, 1869, kc); (3) C. Hugo Hahn, 

 missionai-y at Barmen, who published in 1857 his Grnudziitje einer 

 Grammntik der Horero : (4) J. Uatli of Otjimbirjgue, who completed 

 a HererivGerman and German-Herero Vocabulary, a MS. supposed to 

 be in the Grey Lil)rary together with (5) G. Kronlein's translations 

 (with text) of Nama fables, songs, ifcc. ; (6) Wahlman, who contributed 

 OntJiiif'x of a Ilotfpntot (rvanimar : (7) C. H. Knudsen, who translated 

 St. Luke's Gospel into Nama ; (8) F. H. YoUmer, and other later 

 names, whtnn we must omit from this sketch. 



It is regrettable that many of these have recorded the result of 

 their studies in publications inaccessible to many English students by 

 burying them in the transfictions of German learned and scientific 

 societies. It is hoped that in future the Koyal Society of South 

 Africa and the South African Association for the Advancement of 

 Science may perform the useful function of diverting some of these 

 streams of knowle<lge into channels more convenient for the South 

 African student. 



In 1835 Captain Sir James E. Alexander penetrated as far north 

 as Walwich Bay in an overland journey up the west coast, and visited 

 tlie Herero and Berg Damara tribes, as set forth in his Expedition of 

 Discovery into the Interior of Africa (1836). In 18i9 a second ex- 

 pedition inland from Walwich Bay was undertaken by Mr. Francis 

 Galton, accompanied by Mr. Charles John Andersson, a Swedish 

 naturalist, who gave an account of the journey in his Lake Ngatni 

 (1856), as well as of a later exploration to the Bayeiye and Okavango 

 rivers. Mr. Galton in his Xarrative of an Explorer in Tropical South 

 Africa (1853) describes the Berg Damara, the Ova-Herero and the 

 Ov'-Ambo. These three works are the earliest to give any but the 

 scantiest details of the dark-coloured triV)es of the south-west. Sir 

 Fi'ancis Galton's work has become a classic and been reproduced in a 

 Library- of Famous Books, and the author has acijuired a European 

 reputation as an anthropologist. 



Here, at the commencement of a new ei"a, we terminate this 

 sketch. Livingstone published his Missionary Travels in 1857, Dr. 

 W. H. I. Bleek his Comparative Grammar of South African Langnayes 

 in 1862, and these authors have systematised South African ethnology 

 by affording a comparative study of the Bantu-speaking tribes south of 

 the Congo and the great lakes, and by demonstrating the unity of the 

 Bantu dialects', first conjectured by Appleyard. 



The explorations, geogi-aphical and linguistic, of this " Jachin and 

 Boaz " of Bantu ethnology have thrown open a wider field to a noble 

 army of workers, which, increasing in geometrical ratio, overwhelm us 

 by their numbers. With regard to the yellow-skinned races there would 

 perhaps be less to record. Until the Xative Races of South Africa, by 

 George W. Stow, was brought to light by Dr. Theal in 1905, we had 

 only the unique knowledge of Theophilus Hahn of the Nama speech 

 and religion ; but while light has been thrown on the Bushmen by 



