GENERAL INDEX. 
645 
acquiring a knowledge of the 
language of the country. 13. 
Travellers, substitute for a theo- 
dolite 132, 135. 
mode of drying speci- 
mens of plants, without press 
or paper 134. 
in the Cape Colony : a 
caution to 250. 
advice to those who ex- 
plore the country of the Bush- 
men 294. 
remarks on the art of 
drawing, as applicable to their 
views. 411. 11.214. 562, 563. 
— -— confidence in the natives. 
424. 
in the Interior of Africa : 
the difiiculties of their situa- 
tion 506, 507. 
in Africa : advice re- 
specting their observations for 
the latitude 576. 
their duty with respect 
to names of places, and new 
words II. 508. 
guilty of dishonesty, by 
practising any of the arts of 
exaggeration II. 368. 
ignorant of a language ; 
liable to imposition 13. 11.432. 
the degree of authority 
necessary to their success. 
II. 472. 
Travelling in the Colony : the 
usual mode adopted by the 
colonists.... 76.92. 141, 142. 
220. 
distances : a rule for 
estimating them 90. 
with ox-waggons. 28. 86. 
135. 163. 166. 174. 576. II. 
171. 298. 341. 
with horse-waggons. 28. 
II. 171. 516. 
on oxback II. 31. 
■ on horseback. 220. 576. 
II. 143. 316. 
— by night : objections 
against it 179. 
expeditious J disadvan- 
tages of 193. 
on foot : instances of 
great expedition, in various 
tribes of the aboriginal inha- 
bitants. 287. 498. II. 71. 195. 
218. 518. 
a mode of ascertaining 
the distance 289. 11.341. 
the pleasures and enjoy- 
ments of 444. 474. 
— the salt of. 445. 
in the Interior : some 
remarks on 504. 
in the Interior: its 
dangers and difUculfies. 518. 
in Southern Africa : an 
essential principle of. II. 270. 
Trees : their scarcity in some parts 
of Southern Africa. 102. 314. 
II. 110. 113. 
Tr^ktouw (Drag-rope). 151. 450. 
II. 251. 
Trigonometrical measurement of 
the breadth of the Gariep. 
319. 
measurement of the 
breadth of the Kygariep or 
Yellow River 441 . 
Tronk volk, or Jail Hottentots. 
II. 158, 159. 164. 
Triiy (more commonly pronounced 
Troey) a Hottentot woman 
(the wife of Juli), who accom- 
panied the author's party, — 
her excellent character. II. 
181. 
her alarm at a lion... II. 191. 
and her child, narrowly escape 
being drowned in crossing the 
Gariejo II. 215. 
is left at the Hottentot kraal 
at Grootedoorn ; till the re- 
turn of the party from the 
Interior II. 225. 231. 
Tryn, or Katryn, a Hottentot 
woman affected with steato- 
pyga 216. 
Tsamma, or Bachapin walking- 
stick 11.441. 446. 574. 
Tsepi, a species of Antelope. II. 
420. 425. 
Tulbagh: the village of 76. 
the district of. 75. 
a visit to, and descrip- 
tion of 127, 128. 
second visit to 182. 
distances from. 553.557. 
Drostdy : description of. 
128. 
objection to 
its situation 128. 
information re- 
ceived there, of the arrival of 
a package belonging to the 
author, which was never after- 
wards accounted for 250. 
Turf, or green sod : its scarcity in 
Southern Africa II. 125. 
Turmeric..., 93. 
Turtle-doves 215. 318. 50^. 
Tutor : Itinerant. See Meester. 
Tway ! a Bushman salutation. 
II. 84. 
Twilight : its duration, in the 
Transgariepine 336. 493. 
Tygerberg (Tiger Mountain). 25. 
44. 173. 
Tys-kraal 229. 231. 
u. 
iJitenhase : the Village of. 76. 92. 
96. II. 541. 
the District of 75. 
1 
LFitspan. See Outspan. 
Umbrella : its utility to a traveller 
in Africa 509. Il;454. 
— made of ostrich-plumes. 
II. 579. 
Uncle (Oom) : in what sense this 
word is used in the Colony. 
499. 
Unicorn of the Moderns ; con- 
sidered to be merely a creature 
of the imagination 432. 
————— arguments 
against its existence ... II. 77. 
the Sea- II. 77. 
Unlucky - Wood, a remarkable 
shrub II. 258.451. 499. 
Ursa major; a constellation never 
^ visible at the Cape SO. 
Uyentjes : Bushmen's : small eat- 
able bulbs... 417. 548. 11.26. 
, Water 51. 
Uyentje-zak II. 57. 
V. 
Vaal Leeuw, (Pale Lion)... II. 192. 
Rivler. See Kj'gariep. 
Vaccine matter, taken into the In- 
terior ; 183. 
. occasion of its 
failure 371. 
Vaccinators: a caution to ... 276. 
Vaillant. See, Le Vaillant. 
Valk : Kleine Roode 338. 501 . 
Valley: various interpretations of 
the Dutch word; and its pro- 
nunciation 519. 
Vanderbyl, a colonist at the Paarl 
Village 140, 
Van der Merwe; a colonist on the 
Snow Mountain II. 182. 
Van Heerden, a colonist on the 
Snow Mountains II. I7i. 
Van Roye, (or Van Rooyen), a 
Hottentot in the author's ser . 
vice : (see also Roye) his his- 
tory II. 155. 
hired II. 156. 
meets with his son in 
the Transgariepine... II. 230. 
his absence, at Ongeluks 
Fountain II. 257. 
sent on .'•earch of Speel- 
man and Platje, at Kosi Foun- 
tain II. 282. 
liis character... II. 286. 
feigns illness, for the pur- 
pose of evading a journey 
back to the Kruman. II. 513. 
318, 
. through fear, absconds 
at Litakun II. 425. 
his services during the 
journey II. 457, 458. 
his disobedience and bad 
conduct .... 11. 459, 460. 467. 
