INDEX. 
Elephant's Foot, a plant, clcfcribed, page 72 Hottentots, mufic and dances of^ page 57 
Elephants, herd of 89 peculiar tribes of 85, 115 
• paths made through wocds by 88 — perhaps lefs able to bear fatigue than 
Elk, or Eland, defcribcd 10 note Europeans 114 
Euphorbia, fpecies of, poifonous 62,170 Hottniqua Land, account of 35 
Houfe, Aloe Dichotoma fubftituted for c8 
F. Hjenas, how poifoned bj^ the peafants 131,171 
Finger, little, firft joint of, cut ofF by Hottentots to 
cure fome difeafe 117 I. 
Fiflies, prodigious number of, driven into Table Iron ore, cubic £4 
Bay 5 K. 
Food, various kinds of 22, 31 note, 63, 72, 92, Karo, account of 4^ 
120,125 Great, a defart country 45 
G. / Klow ficknefs c)6 
Gems Bock defcribed 53 note Koedoes dcfcribed 27 
German turned Hottentot- 28 I:. 
Goat, fpotted, defcribed 10 note Larvae of infcfts eaten by Bofliiefmen 31 note 
Good Hope extremely fertile 33 Life, long, rare in the fouth of Africa 41 
Grafs, feed of a fpecies of, eaten by the Boiliiefmen Liquor, intoxicating, made by the CafFres 92 
63 Lion preying on dead animals 64, 118 
Gums eaten as food by Hottentots 59, 125, 133 Lionefs, dimenfions of one 33 
, — monkeys and birds 124 Locufts dried and eaten by Bofliiefmen 63 
Loxia, curious nells of, defcribed 133 
H. 
Hailftorm, violent 79 M. 
Hartebeeft, dimenfions of one 82 Mimofa, various ufes of 124, 133 
Hemp-leaves preferred to Tobacco by the Hotten- Meteorological journal, 137 — 160 
tots 56 N". 
Hippopotamus, cries of, frightful 60 Nimiqua Land Small 56 
.1 holes made in rivers by 25 O. 
how caught 64 Oil beft antidote for fting of fcorplon 1 56 
Horns of cattle turned into various (hapes 94 Orange River IJ2 
Horfes annually attacked by a particular difeafe at Oftrich eggs excellent food ib* 
Hantum 51 neft found containing thirty-four ib. 
Hofpitality of the boors 5, 4S 
Hottentot Holland, account of 7 P. 
remarks on the kna to theEaft Falm, bread made of the pith of a fpecies of 87, 
of II g2 
Hottentots defcribed 13 note Piper Ccrdifolia common in the woods 21,35 
. eat old fhoes 117, 120 Plant ufed to procure fire by fri;a:ion 118 
' {linking fifh 116 Poifoned arrow, efFe>f^:s of a wound from 48 
' habitations of 19 note — how made 62, 162, 164 
