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Uun of the adjacent country was obtained, and the jealousy 

 of the tribe which they discovered, prevented their visiting the 

 bdjacent ones, whom they painted in the most terrific colours. 

 It is to Mr. Barrow that the public are indebted for the details 

 of this expedition, meagre as they are, which he appended to 

 his book upon Cochin China. 



Professor Lich;enstein visited the nation of whom I have 

 just spnksn in T503, rs wr1] as the Caffers of the coast: th^i 

 particulars he entera into of the liistcry and manners of jjotli 

 people are highly i;iterestinfr, a-.id in gineral accurate ; he also 

 gives a list of the surroundinjj communities of the Bichuana 

 population, not altogether correct, but as most of these have 

 been since visited by our traders and other people, I shall re- 

 serve an account of tiiem for (lie second part of this article. 



As the r.ext expedition, that of Dr. Cowan and Lieut. Dono- 

 van, opened a new sera, and the progress of our geographical 

 knowledge has increased since that period with extraordinary 

 rapidity, I shall here make a resting jdace, and before I pro- 

 ceed to the second division of the subject, sum up the amount 

 of our acquisitions to that period, being 149 years since the 

 first establishment of civilized man upon the Cape Peninsula. 



The Colony itself, according to the boundaries affixed by the 

 Proclamation of 1798, that of Lord Macartney, was separated 

 from the Interior by the Great Fish Kiver on the East, and a 

 line drawn thence to the Kaga Mountains, through tlie Winter 

 and Bamboo Bergen, northward to the Zekoe River, in about 

 the 30th parallel, thence South to the several sources of the 

 Chamtoos River, and then with an undulating line taking the 

 direction of North-west to the Koussie River on the Atlantic 

 Coast, in 29. 40. South latitude. 



Beyond this boundary on the eastward it has been seen that 

 !is early as 16S3, the Cape had been reached from Port Natal. 

 In 1684 the Colonists had discovered the CafFer Tribes from the 

 westward. In 1688 Natal had been described and frequently 

 visited by Capt. Woodes Rogers. In 1719 a Capt. van der 

 Schelling had traversed from Dela Goa to Cape Town, and iu 

 1727 a Lieut. 3Ionas had made an excursion from the former 

 place to Natal. In 1750 the present Als^oa Bay had been 

 appropriated. In 1779 Paterson encamped upon the banks of 

 the Beka. In 1782, a portion of the ' Grosvenor's' crew 

 succcded in reaching Cape Town from within 40 miles of Natal, 

 or about 1000 miles from the former place; and that in the 

 same year the sources of tlie Kci River were first visited, and 

 in 1790, Van Reenen repaired to the spot of the 'Grosvenor's* 

 catastrophe, and gave the first rough sketch of the country 

 and its rivers to that point. On the northward the Namacqua 

 country had been tolerably well explored at different periods. 



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