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might, perhapSj be intended for the Boojhuanas^ whom the 
two above-mentioned gentlemen vifited two years ago ; inftead, 
however, of the Pigmy Hottentots, which the fir ft are repre- 
fented to be, the latter were found to be a tail athletic race of 
KafFers. Thefe gentlemen, on comparing Monfieur Le Vail- 
lant\ book with the country, and the natives beyond the 
Orange River, were decidedly of opinion that, fo far from ad- 
vancing to the Tropic, he had never crofTed the faid river. But 
enough of Monficur Le Vaillant. As to a work lately publiflied 
under the name of Dambergher, it would be an infult to the 
underftanding of the public, to fuppofe that fo grofs and clumfy 
an impofition could for a moment pafs detection. 
Having thus noticed fome of the defedls and omiffions in 
the works of the moft efteemed authors who have written on 
the Cape, I (hall beg leave to fay a word with refpedl to the 
manner in which the chart, prefixed to the former volume of 
this work, v^as conftrud;ed. 
The geographical knowledge of the colony being fo very im- 
perfedt, and only two partial maps in exiftence that could at all 
be depended on ; one, that of Be la Rochette already noticed ; 
the other, a furvey on a very large fcale, having all the farms 
marked down from Zwellendam to Algoa Bay, and from the 
firft chain of mountains to the fea-coaft, comprehending, how- 
ever, only a fmall portion of Zwellendam, Lord Macartney, 
in the inftrudions I had the honour to receive from him, en- 
joined me to pay a particular attention to this important fub- 
jed. I furniflied myfelf, accordingly, with a fexiant of fix in- 
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