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ON EOCK-ENGEAVINGS OF ANIMALS AND THE HUMAN 

 FIGUEE, THE WOEK OF SOUTH AFEICAN ABOEI- 

 GINES, AND THEIE EELATION TO SIMILAE ONES 

 FOUND IN NOETHEEN AFEICA. 



By L. Pekinguey. 



Plates XII., XIII., XIV. 



(Read May 30, 1906.) 



Figures engraved on hard rocks have been known in South 

 Africa for some time. They are far from uncommon, along the 

 banks of the Vaal Eiver from Vereeniging in the Transvaal, where 

 they have been quite lately discovered, to its junction with the 

 Orange Eiver, and also along that river ; they have been found in 

 the Klerksdorp District, in the Transvaal, have been reported 

 from Kuruman, and are known to occur in the vicinity of 

 Vryburg. They are found in the Victoria West and Britstown 

 Districts of the Cape Colony, in Prieska, Clanwilliam, and 

 Beaufort West ; are said to occur in the Middleburg District, 

 Cape Colony, in the Kalahari, and lately they have been discovered 

 in Humansdorp. A systematic search for these interesting relics 

 will probably lead to their discovery in many other parts of the 

 Cape Colony and elsewhere in South Africa. I am not aware of 

 any of them having been met with north of the localities mentioned, 

 and the rock carvings found in Southern Ehodesia are pronounced 

 to be altogether different from those which form the subject of this 

 paper. 



But it is not in South Africa only that these " rock-engravings," 

 or "graffiti," or "rupestres" are found. 



Barth, during his journey in Africa, discovered rock-engravings 

 which, from his description, as well as from the vignette he gives, 

 are of a workmanship very similar to, if not identical with, those met 

 with in South Africa. On two occasions he mentions this discovery 

 in his " Travels in Africa," London, 1857 (vol. i., chap, xii., p. 293): 



