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" In the years 1775 and 1785, Sparrman and Le Vaillant 

 travelled in the territories of the Bushmen about 400 miles to 

 the north of Cape Town. Mr Barrow in 1 7^7 traversed from 

 the Kafir region on the east to the Namaquas on the west, 

 including the desert of the Great Karee, as far north as the 

 Snow Mountains. In 1801, this barrier range was crossed for 

 the first time by Messrs Trotter and Somerville, who, passing 

 the Orange River, penetrated Lataku. 



" Another party under the command of Dr Cowan and 

 Lieutenant Donovan, proceeding from Cape Town towards 

 Mosambique, had reached some distance beyond Lataku, 

 when they were murdered by the natives. A few years 

 afterwards Dr Lichtenstein, from 1803 to 1806, penetrated 

 to Lataku, and furnished on his return valuable information 

 respecting the tribes in that direction ; and Dr Burchell in 

 1812, again penetrated into the same regions, and published 

 a work with a map, giving the results of his travels from 

 1811 to 1815. Latrobe's Journal of his visit to South Africa 

 in 1815 appeared in 1818; but in 1813, a missionary, 

 Mr John Campbell, reached Lataku, and in 1820 proceeded 

 from thenee towards the north and east to the borders of a 

 desert which he was told extended far to the west. In 1823, 

 Mr George Thompson visited Lataku, and afterwards pub- 

 lished his travels in Southern Africa, with a good map of the 

 interior. 



"In addition to the above, several other volumes have been 

 published, including the two voyages of Thunberg, Patterson's 

 Narrative of his journey into the country of the Hottentots 

 and Kaffraria; and Reenen's journey from the Cape of Good 

 Hope; White's Voyage to Delagoa Bay; SempW Journey 

 from Cape Town; Kay's Researches in Kaffraria; Moodie's 

 Ten Years in South Africa; Gleedman's Wanderings and 

 Phillips's Researches in South Africa: Stavorinus, Percival, 

 Pringle, Bunbury, and Gardiner, have also given the result 

 of their experiences. 



"In 1835, Dr Andrew Smith left Cape Town to visit the 



