626 
GENERAL INDEX. 
Districts of the Colony ... 75. 579, 
580. II. 144. 549. 
Diver, a bird 440. 
an antelope. See Duiker. 
D6ekstein, or Cloth-stone .... 333. 
Dogs: common domestic. 237.247. 
349. 381, 382. 384. 401. II. 2. 
183. 
remarks on their various 
barkings II. 244. 
remarks on their attachment 
to man II. 245. 524. 
and Jackals .... 464. II. 285. 
attack a lion II. 191. 
of the Bushmen.. 11. 56. 198. 
of the Bachapins. II. 474.524. 
' the Wild : a new species of 
Hyena 456. II. 99. 229. 
Dollars : Cape. See Rix-Dollars. 
Spanish 79. 
Doom-boom (Thorn-tree). See 
Karro-doorn ; Witte-doorn ; 
Cape Acacia... 195.211.213. 
317. II. 244. 
Doom River, in the Karro. 211.213. 
in the Transgariepine. 
II. 244. 
Doves: Turtle 213. 501,502, 
Guinea 502. II. 257. 
Downs, near Cape Town.. 26. 58. 
84. 147. 
Drakenstein... 138. 144. 178, 179. 
Drawing : the art of: as connected 
with the views of a traveller. 
336. 411. II. 214. 391. 561. 
562, 563. 
in perspective : its prin- 
ciples explained II. 448. 
Driedoorn, or Threethorn : a shrub 
of remarkable growth.... 299. 
II. 23. 41. 
Drooge-tyd (Dry-season)... II. 410. 
Drossers, or Runaways II. 159. 
Drostdy; the Residence of the 
Drost, or Landdrost. 128.135. 
146. II. 145. 
Drum, of the Bushmen. II. 65. 87. 
Dry-Mountains, or Karr^ebergen. 
293. 
Dry weather : its effects on vege- 
tation II. 306. 
Dubbeltjes: a coin so called. 78. 
-doom ; a Colonial name 
sometimes given to the Cen- 
topodium 340. 
a Colonial name 
sometimes given to Arctopus 
echinatus, and some species of 
Tribulus. 
Ducatoon ; a Dutch silver coin 
worth ^ix shillings English. 248. 
Duck : the Crimson-billed ... 283. 
II. 546. 
Wild 197. 538. 
Duif: Bosch, (Wood-Pigeon) 502. 
Namaqua (Namaqua Dove) 
or Cape Pigeon 502. 
Tortel (Turtle Dove). 501,502. 
Duiker (or Duyker): a species of 
Antelope 187. 202. 
a bird 440 
Duivelsberg, at Cape Town 26. 
Dulvels-kop; a mountain 89. 
Dunkerhoek-berg, (Dark-corner 
Mountain) 117. 
Dupl^ssis, in the Bosjesveld, his 
mistake 122. 
Dust : columns of ; lifted into the 
air by a whirlwind 507 . 
Dutch inhabitants 21. 58. 78. 
II. 96. 107. 164. 167. 
language, necessary to a 
traveller 15. 
names: general precepts 
for the pronunciation of them. 
15. 351. 
names of places in the 
Colony may be Anglicised. 
100. 
money compared with Eng- 
lish 78. 
weight, compared with 
English 154. 
Du Toit's house and farm in the 
Bosjesveld (or Boschjesveld). 
117, 118. 
Kloof, near the Paarl. 
89. 
Duyker, a bird 440. 
or Duiker : description of. 
187. 202. 
Dwaal river 277. 
Rivier's Poort 279. 
river ; rocks at II. 43, 
Dye: yellow 212. 
E. 
Ear-plate, of the BachapTns, de- 
scribed... II. 570 — 572. 
Earthenware of the Bachapins. 
II. 594. 
Earth Hog (Aardvark) 342. II. 97. 
Earthquakes in 1806 569. 
■ in 1809 27. 
in 1811... 26. 38. 157 
— 160. 169. 194. 
the roaring of a lion 
mistaken for it II. 206. 
Eastern Districts 581. 
Eclipse of Jupiter's Satellites, ob- 
served 484. 
Eels : a remarkable fact respecting 
them 425. 
Eerste Rivier 84. 146. 
Egyptian sacred Vulture 338. 
Eisenrahm, a mineral 414. 
Eland, or Elk (more properly 
Kanna; which see); a species 
of Antelope. 267. 309. 311, 
512, 315. 482. II. 23. 190. 
194. 273. 391. 
Eland's Kloof ; one of the moun- 
tain-passes 88. 
Valley, or Elk's Pond; in 
the Cisgariepine 299. 
Elands Valley, or Fountain; in 
the Transgariepine. 333. 353. 
477. 482. 
vogel (Eland-bird) ... 245. 
Elk. See Eland, or Kanna. 
Elze, Roode, a tree 142. 
Witte i43. 
Electrical phenomenon 519. 
Elephant tramples a man to death. 
201. 301. 
abound in the Interior. 
II. 539. 
hunts. 376. 481. 11.466. 
578. 
tusk seen at Kramori's. 
II. 446. 
River.. 80. 96. 580, 581. 
acacia 256. 
Elephantiasis II. 580. 
Emigration to Southern Africa. 
76. 274, 275. II. 559. 
Hints on. — See a vin- 
dication of this pamphlet, 
appended to the first volume. 
1 — 4. 
Engelsche Drift II. 214. 
Heer II. 456. 
England compared with other 
countries II. 281. 
letters to 510. 11.478. 
English inhabitants in the Cape 
Colony 78. II. 142. 
language (in 1815) little 
known, excepting in Cape 
Town, and Albany 14. 
names of places may, in 
some cases, be substituted for 
Dutch 99. 
orthography, reasons for 
not adoptingjit for the Sichuana 
language II. 297. 
plants, naturalized in Africa. 
37. 540. 544, 545. II. 226. 
— Ford II. 10. 214. 
Englishman: the price of being 
one 259 
Enthusiasm ; religious : its eflfects. 
358. 462. 
Entrails of animals, used for neck- 
laces II. 209. 
Epidemic complaint, in the Colony. 
II. 157. 141. 148. 
Equal Pass 261. 
Europe and Africa, contrasted. 
495, 496. 
European and African, contrasted. 
n. 443. 
luxuries : probable senti- 
ments of the savage tribes 
respecting them II. 440. 
Evaporation ; its effects, to bodily 
feeling 337. 
Evergreen plants II. 1 1 . 
Exaggeration: the art of.. 11.368. 
Exchange, built at Cape Town. 
74. 
mercantile : the rate of, 
in 1810. and 1823. 79. II. 540. 
