TRAVELS 
INTO THE 
INTERIOR OF SOUTHERN AFRICA. 
PRELIMINARY SUBJECT. 
Motives that gave Rife to the prefent Volume. — Importance of Jiudfing the Difpofttion 
of Inhabitants — of gaining local Information. — AJftdulty of the French in thefe 
RefpeBs — injlanced In a Variety of Cafes — combine national ivlth Individual Views 
—-their Dlfperfton by the late Revolution — endeavour to attract the Notice of their 
Country. — ExtraEl from the Travels of the Duke of Rochefaucault Liancourt — ■ 
his Sentiments thofe of the Emigrants. — French indefatigable in their Purfuits 
abroad— -Progrefs made in India — in the Blrman Empire — in Cochin-China — the 
Danger^ or Advantage^ that England may derive from the lafl Connexion. — Con- 
Jtderatlons refpeBlng Macao. — French communicate Knowledge — Dutch and Portu- 
guefe impede it with regard to their Colonies— 'Cape of Good Hope an Exception to this 
Remark — Knowledge of it ImperfeEl — and Accounts contradlBory. — Various Authors 
ivho have written on the SubjeB — Tachard— Merklin — Valentyn — Kolbe— 
AbbedelaCaille — Sparrmann — Thunberg — Patterfon — Hoppe— Van Reenen. 
—Maps of Captain Riou and De la Rochette. — Important Obfervatlons on the 
South Coafl of Africa'— Errors of different Charts— Obfervatiotis on Monfieur Le 
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