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SOUTHEEN AFRICA. 
The same writer alludes further to this voyage 
as not the most unlikely means or opportunity 
I for peopling South Africa with its Hottentot 
tribes. He says, u amongst the possibilities 
that haye peopled the Southern corner of Africa, 
with two such curious races, (referring to the 
Hottentots and Kaffirs) it may not be too 
bold a conjecture to attribute it to this ancient 
Egyptian voyage, in the reign of Pharoah J^Techo. 
The crews of the vessels would be composed of 
Egyptians, in their progress down the Red Sea, 
they would touch at the Ethiopian ports, and 
carry with them a few of the most adventurous 
of the people. Arrived at the Cape, a portion 
of these navigators, tired with the length of 
the voyage, on finding an unoccupied country, 
full of wild animals, might naturally wish to 
try their fortune at hunting, and be left be- 
hind. I have noticed the striJcing resemblance 
between the persons of the Hottentots and those 
of the ancient Egyptians delineated on ancient 
monuments, as well as the singularity of the 
female form — to be found nowhere else than in 
Nubia , and South Africa"* 
From these Phoenicians, however, we hear 
nothing of even the existence of so remarkable 
a promontory as "The Cape:" and hence it 
may reasonably be conjectured that these enter- 
* United Service Journal, February, 1841. 
