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We have omitted the author's historical 
account of the Carthaginian republic, as 
not exactly bearing on the present subject. 
It is not of any consequence to the people 
of the nineteenth century, what condition 
the southern parts of Africa were in two or 
three thousand years ago. Our object is 
to obtain the best possible information 
respecting the present state of Southern 
Africa ; that our countrymen when landed 
at the Cape may not be at a loss how to 
conduct themselves, after occupying the 
lands assigned to them for cultivation. 
Our author observes that within the last 
century several intelligent and enterprising 
men have penetrated the interior, more 
than 400 miles from the most advanced 
colony belonging to the Cape, and their 
opinions are perfectly in unison with mine. 
Monsieur Vaillant, Colonel Gordon, Dr. 
Sparman, Major Patterson, and a few 
others, have visited the countries inhabited 
by the wandering Hottentots, the Auteniqua 
country from the mountains to the sea, the 
Gonoquais, the Namaquois, and several 
Other parts inhabited by people generally 
