1^2 TRAVELS IN 
this language; for a didiionary of it would 
have rendered the commencement of my re- 
fearches lefs difgufting and lefs laborious. I 
therefore confider it as a part of my duty to 
prefent here what I fo much wifhed for my- 
felf, and to fubjoin the primitive names of 
the greater part of the animals of Africa, fuch 
as they have always been known. and dillin- 
guifhed by the Hottentots of the de-farts. J 
have added alfo thofe given them by the 
planters at the Cape of Good Hope. 
It mufr be obferved that the Hottentots of 
the colanies, having in part forgotten their 
language^ disfigure what remains by a mix- 
ture of corruptedDatch ; fo that, without men- 
tioning other inconveniences which thence 
arife, animals change their names, or have 
feveral different ones, according to the dif- 
ferent cantons or colonies where they are 
found. This produces a confufion very diffi- 
cult to be cleared up, and is one reafon for 
preferring the nomenclature of the natives, 
whofe language, always the fame, is fecure4 
frpm experiencing any change or variation. 
