622 
GENERAL INDEX. 
Botanic garden at Cape Town ; 
proposed 24. 
Botanical boundaries 208. 324. 
11. 475. 
— features of a country, 
change with its mineralogy. 
208. 307. II. 100. 
specimens : a new mode 
of preserving them, when the 
regular mode is not practica- 
ble 133. 
specimens ; a package of 
them, lost in a manner never 
accounted for 250. 
specimens: the trouble 
of drying them 293. 
Botany of the Cape ; its profusion 
and great variety 16. 18. 
of the Cape Colony : its 
features , II. 146. 
of the Cape Colony. (See 
also Comparative Botany.) 
of the Cape Peninsula. 
154. 
of African plains 536. 
of the Nuakketsi country. 
11. 475. 
a remarkable change in : 
at the Karro-pass 208. 
and Geology, connected. 
II. 100. 
and Geographv, connected. 
11.211. 
desiderata in. 212.255.454. 
Boterboom (Butter tree) 192. 
Boulder stones; a remarkable kind 
of II. 43, 4 4. 
Boundary of the Colony: a law 
respecting it 162. 
of the Colony, ill-de- 
fined II. 185. 
Boven-land, the term explained. 88. 
Bowls of the Hottentots ; the mode 
of making them 406. 
Bows of the Bushmen II. 198. 
Boys ; Bachapin : their employ- 
ment II. 557. 
Bracelets, of theBachapIns. II. 572. 
Brackish River 289. 
Brakke Rivier 261. 289. 
an unexplored river, 
improperly so called. (See 
also. Friendly River.)... II. 19. 
Brak-boschjes, a plant II. 21. 
Crandewyn-bosch 364. 
Brand Valley, or Brandt Valley : its 
hot-spring described. 21. 124, 
125. 
Brandy : reasons for concealing it 
from the savages II. 393. 
of the Colony 80. 119. 
bush 564. 
Brass : how denominated by the 
Bachaplns II. 575. 
Bread: Hottentots'; a plant of sin- 
gular growth II. 147. 
of the Bichuanas .... II. 586. 
Breede Rivier (Broad River). 104. 
126, 135. 189. 
Brewery : a villa near Cape Town. 
35. 
Br^y-paal ; an apparatus used in 
preparing leathern thongs. 351. 
Brieskap ; a ford through the 
Gariep 307. 
Briqua: meaning of the word. 364. 
II. 303. 
Briqualand 486. II. 437. 
Briquas, (see also, Bachapins) first 
discovered II. 273. 559. 
language (see also, Sich- 
uana) 201 
British inhabitants, at the Cape. 
77, 78. 
Museum. 139.385. II. 336. 
some of the ani- 
mals presented to it. 139. 342. 
II. 278. 301, 302. 334. 
Bruyn, Jacob De 184. II. 479. 
Bn'iyntjes Hoogte II. 114. 
Bryony; a nevv kind of 547. 
Bua kaapi (Say it again). II. 436. 
Buffalo of Southern Africa ... 578. 
II. 420. 
described II. 249. 
one pursued by Speelman 
and Keyser II. 268. 
thorn. 317. 404. II. 20. 29. 
Buftel II. 250. 
Buffl'lbout 303. 
Buffeldoorn 317.404. II. 20. 
Buffels kraal, in the Vale of Hex- 
river 194. 
rivier II. 172. 
Buik- plank 149. 
Buiten districten : meaning of the 
words II. 125. 
Bukobi, or Bichuana Bread. II. 586. 
Buku (see also Bookoo, and 
Boekoe): representation of the 
plant 476. 
a kind of scented powder, 
much used by the Hottentot 
tribes 556. 596. II. 59. 
its medicinal qualities, re- 
commended to notice ... 479. 
a kind of it, made from a 
fragrant species of Croton. 
596. II. 263. 
Bulb-bag, described II. 57. 
Bulbous plants : uncertainty of 
their flowering 1 53. 
plants : the rapidity of their 
vegetation II. 3. 
Bullets : the different kinds used 
during the journey. II. 73. 317. 
Bullet-pouch 167. II. 286. 
Burgers : Barend ; description of 
his dwelling on the Snow 
Mountains II. 173. 
Burghers : three sent by the land- 
drost of Graaffi-eynet. II. 134. 
of the Colony... II. 120. 
ten murdered by the 
Caff'res II. 121. 
Burial-places of the Bachapins. 
II. 522. 
Burning the pastures : its effects 
and utilitx 117. 419. 
Bushes of diminutive size 314. 
II. 110. 
Bushmen. — The following refer- 
ences under this head, are 
given for the purpose of collect- 
ing together the principal parts 
of the information scattered 
throughout these volumes ; 
and from which a knowledge 
of the manners and general 
character of these tribes, may 
be drawn. 
Boschman, Boschjesmau, 
or Bosjesman, (sometimes 
termed Saqua by the Hotten- 
tots) : meaning, and applica- 
tion of the words 64. 
one of the tribes border- 
ing on the Colony 77. 
one of the ingredients in 
their arrow-poison 192. 
Tame. 227. 533. II. 110. 
Captains : their autho- 
rity 227. 230. 
the author's first meet- 
ing with 227. 230. 
frequently attack the 
shepherds of the Colonists. 
238. 
an attempt to establish 
,a Mission among them, at the 
Zak (Sack) river 281. 
precautions against them 
on entering their country. 281. 
their stature and per- 
sonal appearance, described. 
291. II. 212. 
cautions to strangers 
travelling through their coun- 
try 294. 
Goedhart,' a chief, who 
vowed perpetualwarfareagainst 
the Colonists 297 
often conceal the situ- 
ation of their kraals 315. 
II. 284. 
one of the means of 
gaining their good-will... 526. 
language, compared with 
that of the Koras 345. 
■ the uncertain boundaries 
of their country 346. 
a mode in which they 
frequently redress their wrongs. 
373. 
their customary perqui- 
sites, when strangers hunt in 
their territory 379. 
their pitfalls for catching 
wild animals 386. 403. 
sign of their distrust in 
strangers 388. 
a party receiving pre- 
sents 390. 
a tale of their barbarous 
treatment of a prisoner of war. 
391. 392. 
language : its great 
variety of dialects.. 407. 
