GENERAL INDEX. 
643 
Spotted Hill. See, Bonteberg. 
Spreei'iw: Groene. (Green Thrush, 
or Starling) 318. 
Witgat. (White-rumped 
Thrush, or Starling) 594. 
Spring-season, at the Cape 81. 
Springs and ponds in the Trans- 
gariepine : an hypothesis re- 
lative to them II. 311. 
Springbuck (called Springbok, by 
the Dutch colonists), a beau- 
tiful and numerous species of 
antelope : — its remarkable 
and distinctive characters, and 
its various names. 290. II. 109. 
335. 
abounds in various parts 
of Southern Africa. 342. 348. 
373. 11.81. 414. 
a stratagem employed 
by the Bushman hunters, for 
approaching it and other 
game II. 56. 
■ annually migrates to 
various and distant parts of 
the country in quest of pas- 
ture II. 169. 
compared with the 
Paala II. 301. 
called Tsepi, by the 
Bichuanas II. 420. 425. 
Sprlnghaas (Spring-hare, or Leap- 
ing Hare). 343. 487,488. II. 3. 
Spuigslang Fontein (Spitting-snake 
Fountain) 386. II. 261. 
Spy-mountain. See Spionberg. 
Squirrel : a species of ; peculiar to 
Southern Africa II. 241. 
Staart-riem ; or Hottentot Tail- 
piece 397. 
Stadhuis, in Cape Town (Burgher- 
Senate House, or Town Hall). 
73. 
Starling. See Spreeuw. 
Stars : some remarkable ones in the 
Southern hemisphere, which 
are not visible to England. 80. 
— — their practical utility to a 
traveller .... 576. II. 35. 343. 
Stations on the journey : a remark 
respecting their names... 286. 
the utility of 
adding the dates to them on 
the Map 576. 
Steatopyga, a remarkable peculi- 
arity of figure, in the women 
of the Hottentot race.... 216. 
Steek-lens (linchpin) 149. 
Steenbergen (Stony-mountains) in 
the Peninsula of the Cape of 
Good Hope 2. 61. 
St^enbok (Stone-buck), a species 
of antelope; described... 202. 
found in various parts of 
Southern Africa .... 281. 432. 
II. 15. 242. 437. 
Steenbrass or Steenbrassem river. 
87. 
Stellenbosch : the village of ... 76. 
145. 
Stellenbosch : the District of... 75. 
Stephanus, a pretended missionary 
among the Half-Hottentots on 
the banks of the Gariep : his 
history 362. 
Stink Fontein 266. 
Stinkhout (Stinkwood) a valuable 
timber tree of the Cape 
forests 72. 
Stiver (Stuyver, or Stuiver) a de- 
nomination of money used in 
the Cape Colony 79. 
Stockenstrom, Mr.: landdrost of 
GraafFreynet, who was un- 
happily murdered by the 
Caffres. 530. II. 106. 120. 167. 
Stoep (Stupe^ a raised platform or 
terrace m front of the houses 
of Cape Town 71. 
Stonebuck. See, Steenbok. 
Store-room of the Bachapins. 
II. 520. 
Stormberg, or the Storm Moun- 
tains 581. 
Straat (Street) : a singular rocky 
defile, so called 197. 
Streets of Cape Town. 16. 44. 70, 
71. 
Strangury in oxen : the cause of, 
and cure 1 75. 
Stuurman, a Hottentot in the 
author's service ; from GraafP- 
reyndt, into the Transgarie- 
pine. II. 166. 233, 234. 379. 
383. 405. 422. 432. 458. 
Stuyver, or Stuiver. See, Stiver. 
Succulent plants : drawings of 
them should be made on their 
native soil 212. 
Sugarbirds : their beauty of plum- 
age 18. 222. 
the Green 245. 
Station 222. 
Sugarbush, a handsome shrub. 18. 
Suiker-bosch. See, Sugarbush. 
vogel. See, Sugarbird. 
Sumi, a word used by the Bichu- 
anas, to express ' ten' or 
' many' II. 559. 
Summer in the Cape Colony. 81. 
in the Transgariepine. 368. 
491. II. 526. 
Sunday, at Tys Kraal 231. 
at Klaarwater ... 355, 356. 
at Groote Fontein, in the 
Transgariepine 462. 
at Litakun 425, 426. 
River (ZondagRivier). 100. 
580, 581. II. 125. 138. 144. 
169. 211. 
Sunrise on Table Mountain ... 40. 
on the banks of the Gariep. 
11. 17. 
in the Transgariepine. 
II. 323,324. 
Superstition of the Bushmen. 408. 
of the Bachapins. II. 
423, 424. 550. 
Swallows 30. 335. 502. 
Swallows useful to travellers, by 
4 N 2 
indicating the presence and 
situation of water 21. 
Swallow : Mountain. See Berg- 
zwaluw, or Bee-eater. 
Swellendam, or Zwellendam. 75, 
76. 578. 
Taaibosch (Tough-bush), a shrub. 
II. 234. 
a Kora chieftain : his 
arrival at Litakun. 11.214.486. 
Fountain... II. 234. 237. 
Table Mountain (Tafelberg) at 
Cape Town : — first view of it 
at sea i . 
the remarkable 
cloud with which its summit 
is often covered 3. 8. 
its enormous mass, 
viewed from the Town ... 14. 
■- an excursion to 
its summit 39. 
its height .... 43. 
view from its 
summit 44. 
its botanical pro- 
ductions 42. 45, 46. 
seen fromBaviaans 
Kloof. 111. 
seen from Wit- 
senberg 131. 
seen from beyond 
Parapoen Kraal 176. 
seen from a dis- 
tance of forty-eight miles in a 
direct line 181. 
of the Karr^e- 
bergen, innumerable 293. 
a remarkable one 
on the southern side of the 
Kygariep 419. 
Bushman. II. 84. 
100. 184. 
Great; on the 
Colonial boundary- northward 
of the Snow Mountains. See 
also Groote Tafelberg. II. 105. 
Little ; in Achter- 
Sn^euwberg. See also Kleine 
Tafelberg II. lis. 
Tadentaal (see also Guinea fowl, 
and Pintado) 364. 
Tafelberg. See Table Mountain. 
100. 
Groote 94. 105. 
Kleine. II. 117.124.183. 
Tails of animals : the cruelty and 
folly of mutilating them. 
II. 2,30. 
Tail-piece, a singular part of the 
Hottentot dress 397. 
Takoon (Takone): remarks on the 
word II. 307. 
Takkaru (see also Aardvark, and 
Ant-eater) II. 424. 
Tallama (Buttons), a favorite orna- 
ment with the Bachapins. 
II. 567. 573. 
