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rous, and appear to be still gradually decreasing. 
A few remnants of them are to be found along the 
ISTorthem border of the Colony, and also thinly 
scattered throughout the "Western districts. But 
although thus disappearing from the country, 
and becoming amalgamated with the Euro- 
pean races ; it is more than probable that this 
people once possessed the whole South-eastern 
territory of Africa, even up to the river Kei. 
This conclusion is arrived at from the fact that 
the rivers in this district chiefly retain their 
Hottentot names, altered only to conform them 
to the laws of the Kaffir language. 
Their language is now also nearly extinct, 
being superseded by the Colonial Dutch and 
Kaffir dialects. Those within the Colony, who 
are usually denominated Hottentots belong pro- 
perly speaking, to the Griqua tribe. These 
have already been incidentally noticed, as also 
bearing the appellation of " bastard" and being 
an intermixture of Dutch and Hottentot blood. 
The Bergenaars (or mountaineers) who were 
nearly annihilated, some years since, on the 
borders of the Bechuana country, by the Kaffir 
chief Umzelekazi, and also the Newlanders, (who 
take their name from living in the Newlands 
district,) are amongst the tribes denominated 
Hottentots. Their main body, however, dwell 
in various thickly populated parts of the country 
