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INDEX. 
■Lion — PAGE 
may be domefticated when young - 266 
remarkable account of a Hottentot's 
efcape from - _ 593 > 594 
Locujs, their depredations - 242. 248. 257 
mode of deftroying them - - 402 
Locu,'l-eater, bird of that name defcribed 256 
their immenfe numbers - - 257 
Loxta orix, or Cardinal of the Cape, 
notices refpe£ting the - - 243 
M 
Marriages of the colonifts, abfurd law 
refpefting the - - - 252 
Mill:, quantity of given , by African cows 135 
always ufed by the KafFers in a coagu- 
lated Hate - - - - 170 
probable reafon for this - - ib. 
Milk lajkets , of what texture » - ib. 
Millet, fpecies of, introduced at the Cape 407 
Mineralogy of the Cape peninfula - 35 
Mine, filver, pretended to be found at the 
Cape - _ _ 
Mijer, Dutch, and his domeftic economy 
defcribed - - 383, 384 
Miffionaries European, their attempt to 
propagate Chriftianity among the 
KafFers and Bosjefmans -• 351. 399 
Moravian miffionaries, account of their 
eftablifhment at Bavian's kloof - 351 
beneficial efFefts of their labours among 
the Hottentots - - 352 
divine fervice, decent performance of 353 
their mode of introducing civilization 354 
not encouraged by the Dutch colonifts ib, 
offer their fervices among the Bosjef- 
mans _ _ - _ 395 
N 
Namaaquas, preparations for a journey 
into their country - _ 31^7 
greatly diminifhed by the encroach- 
ments of the Dutch - 387, 388 
their perfons and language defcribed - 389 
breads of the females large and pen- 
dant - - _ _ 390 
their huts defcribed _ - - ib. 
their employment paftoral - _ ib. 
great apparent age of a female Na- 
inaaqua - _ _ 398 
Nefls of birds, how conftruAed in South- 
ern Africa - - 323. 394 
Niewwe/d mountains, their height, and 
component parts - 100, loi 
Nitre, how procured by the Author - 91 
its probable influence on the tempe- 
rature of the air - -106 
Nymphie, elongation of, univerfal among 
the Bosjefmans and the Hottentot 
females - 278 — 280 
a fimilar appearance in parts of Egypt 281 
O 
Origin of the Hottentots, conjediures re- 
fpefting the - - - 282 
Orange river, account of - 294. 296, 297 
pebbles on its banks - - 299 
OJlrich, remarks on the _ _ ■ 94 
a polygamous bird • - "95 
its eggs a delicacy _ - . ib. 
Oxen ( draught), fometimes brutally treated 
by the colonifts - - 183 
{hocking inftances of this - 182, 183 
