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in South Africa) which is used by the Hottentots 

 in making their harpoons, and is esteemed by 

 them as preferable to iron for this purpose/' 

 Spaarman also mentions the use of the bored 

 stone by Bushmen in 1786. It was only in 1855, 

 however, that spears and arrow-heads made of 

 stone were first discovered by Col. T. H. Bowker 

 buried deep in the soil near the Fish River. In 

 1870 Sir Langham Dale published a paper on 

 Stone Implements in South Africa in the Cape 

 Monthly. This was the first archaeological article 

 to be printed in the Colony, and to it was appended 

 Notes to Dale's Stone Implements in South Africa 

 by Alfred Brown. 



Brown was, therefore, a pioneer in the field of 

 Archaeology, and, from the moment when he 

 began to take an interest in it until the end of 

 his days, he became gradually more and more 

 absorbed in it. I have already pointed out how 

 this new science came to his rescue when, on 

 account of his disappointments with his fossil 

 studies, he was inclined to give up his researches 

 on the veld. In his later years this study became 

 his main activity. In ramble after ramble he 

 picked up now a bored-stone, then a spear-head 

 or scraper of excellent workmanship, until he 

 built up one of the largest and best collections 

 in the Colony. He even undertook the excavation 



