GENERAL INDEX. 
641 
Roode Hoogte (Red Heights). 86. 
Kaff'ers (Red Caffres) ; see 
also, Tammaka and Batam- 
maka II. 225. 
Valk: Kleine (Little Red 
Falcon) 338. 
R6odezand : District of. 125.581. 
Roodezand's Kloof (Redsand Pass). 
136, 137. 181. 
Roofs of houses at Cape Town. 7 1 . 
Litakun. 11.519. 
Roots: eatable wild. 51.232.417. 
465. II. 316. 332. 589. 
Ropes, or Cords : the manner in 
which they are manufactured 
by the Hottentots 405. 
Roses 23. II. 124. 
Roye, or Royen. See Van Roye. 
Rugged-Kloof II. 109. 
Ruiter (Ruter), a Half Bachapin in 
the author's service, from the 
Asbestos Mountains to Graaff- 
reynet. 542. II. 3. 15.89.219. 
Rumo, or Hassagay II. 597. 
Rushes of which mats are made. 
114. 263. II. 125. 
of the island in the Gariep. 
II. 215. 
Rijyter, a Bushman captain. 497. 
Ryksddalder. See RixdoUar. 
Ryeland. See Roggeveld. 
S. 
Sabbath : (see also, Sunday.) 11.430. 
Sack River (Zak Rivier) forming 
(in 18 12.) part of the northern 
; boundary of the Cape Colony. 
261. 280. 361, 362. 560. 562. 
564. 11.609. 
St. Helena: Island of. 79. 545. 
— — — Bay, in the Cape Colony. 
131. 579. 
St. Paulde Loando 511, 512. 
Saldanha Bay 131. 
Salt : its scarcity and value in the 
Transgariepine II. 480. 
lakes, or ponds. 599. II. 487. 
pan Ford 599. 
■ Table-mountain ... 419. 
River, near Cape Town. 51, 
52. 100. 147. 170. 
S4mbie, a CafFre chief : one of his 
brothers killed by the Bush- 
men 268. 
Sandals, worn by the aboriginal 
inhabitants of Southern Africa. 
598. 459. II. 570. 
Sand: clouds of; raised by a whirl- 
wind 508. 
Sands of the Cape Isthmus : the 
possibility of rendering them 
firmer and more easily pass- 
able for carriages 54. 
Sand-Country. See Zandveld. 
Sand-Flats, near Cape Town (see 
also Zand Vlakte, Isthmus, 
and Downs) 51. 58. 84. 172. 
VOL. II. 
Sand Mole : its fur supposed to be 
valuable 56, 57. 
Sandstone: rocks of. 29. 45. 294. 
II. 100. 103. 511. 354. 
Saqua, or Saakwa, a name 'some- 
times given to the Bushman 
nation 64. II. 351. 
Satellites of Jupiter, may be ob- 
served in the Interior of 
Southern Africa, with a small 
telescope 484. 
Schaapdrolletjes : a shrub, or tree, 
so called 31. 
Schaapenberg (Sheep -mountain). 
85. 
Schaap-vel Kombaars (Sheep- skin 
coverlet) its value and utility. 
II. 175. 235. 
Scha«p-wagter (Shepherd) 236. 
Schaapwagtertje, a familiar bird, so 
called 270. 
Sch($lling, a denomination of Colo- 
nial (Dutch) money 78. 
Scheen, a part of a waggon... 149. 
Schiet Fontein, in the Cisgarie- 
pine 296. 
Poort 293. 
Schistus : argillaceous ^see also 
. Clay-slate) 29. 
School at Graaffreyn^t ... II. 150. 
Schui'fdeberg, a mountain in the 
BcSkkeveld 131. 
Seacow (see also Zeekoe, Hippo- 
potamus, and River-horse) re- 
mark on the nam.e 412. 
Pork (Zeekoe Spek), es- 
teemed a delicacy 411. 
Holes {Ziekoe Gatten). 
263. 
River (see also Zeekoe 
Rivier). II. 118. 123. 125. 127. 
its climate con- 
sidered to be one of the coldest 
in the Colony II. 172. 
Sea Unicorn II. 77. 
Seasons in the Cape Colony. 80,81. 
Secretary's office, at Cape Town. 
78. 
of District 183. 
bird 578. 
Seldery Fontein 267. 
Sensavan, a remarkable cavern in 
the Transgariepine, where the 
sibllo is found. 414. 11.255. 
256. 518. 
Seringe-boom (see Melia Azedi- 
rach) 22. 
Serpentine: a species of; from 
which tobacco pipes are made. 
II. 311. 525. 
Serpents : an antidote against their 
bite 592. 
a new mode of pre- 
serving them... 470, 471, 472. 
their venom, an ingre- 
dient in the Bushman arrow- 
poison 559, 540, 541. 
their venom, sometimes 
drunk by Hottentots, as a 
4 N 
preventive against their bite. 
351. 
Serrakutu, uncle to the Chief of 
the Bachapins. II. 549. 561. 
574.394. 
a conversation with him. 
II. 440. 
visit to him, to view his 
wife's paintings II. 453. 
Servants at Litakun 11.521. 
Settlers in Southern Africa. 78. 
274. 
Sewing: the manner in which it 
is practised by the Bachapins. 
II. 577. 
.Shallow-ford, on the Gariep. 521. 
Shambok, a whip formed of a strip 
of the hide of a Rhinoceros 
or Hippopotamus. 86, 87. 41 1. 
457. II. 78. 
Sheep of the Cape Colony. 238.525. 
their rapid in- 
crease II. 144. 
their price in the 
Rc)ggeveld (in 1811.) 239. 
their price in the 
Snow Mountains (in 18 13.) II. 
113. 
a flock returning 
home from pasture 242. 
their food. 257. 
the beauty and 
value of the fur of lambs. 11. 
175. 
why preferred to Goats by 
the Hottentots II. 239. 
of the Bachapins. II. 524. 
of the Karrikarries, of the 
Namaquas, and of the Dam- 
maras II. 558. 
boor, or Sheep-farmer. 240. 
n. 175 
-skin coverlet. See, Schaap- 
vel Kombaars. 
Shepherd: Hottentot 258. 
bird , 270. 
Shining-Rock. See, Blink-klip, and 
Sensavan. 
Shoes of hide (Vel-schoen) : their 
nature, and the mode of 
making them ... 214. II. 102. 
Shower: thunder. 514.337.449. 
II. 90. 111. 
Shrike, (see also. Butcher-bird, and 
Fiscal-bird) 502. 
Shumi, (ten) II. 559. 
Sibbata, or Sibbaata, the Bachapin 
Snuff-bag II. 561. 576. 
Sibilo, or Sibiilo, a shining mineral 
powder much used by various 
South-African tribes foradorn- 
their hair and body 414. 
II. 256. 318. 362. 392. 412. 
484. 494. 
Sichuana language : its extent and 
jitility II. 505. 548. 
mode of re- 
ducing it to a written form. 
II. 295 — 295. 
its orthography 
