412 
INDEX. 
PAGE 
c 
Catalogue of various forts of wood in 
PAGE 
the colony - - 339, 
, 40 
Caii/ey Abbe ae la^ alcertains tne length or 
Cattle, their food in the defarts four and 
a degree of the meridian at the 
acrid 
56 
Cape - 
36t5 
its effefls upon them 
ih. 
important conclunon drawn from his 
how the acridity is correfted 
103 
mcafuvemen t • 
of theKaffers immenfely numerous 170— 
■177 
Ccimelf or Dromedary) might be intro- 
guided by fignals 
170 
iillLCCl Willi dkl V<lli Ld^C lliL\J LllL 
account of the various kinds of 
177 
colony 
333 
Ibofe horned ox, defcription of 
203 
Comcleonf fa£ts refpe£tlng its change of 
Chinefe, their refemblance to the Hot- 
colour - - - 
304 
tentot race - 
278 
why they have been thought to live on 
Circumei/ion praftifed among the Kaf- 
air, explained 
ID. 
fers - - 
312 
Cape of Good Hope, importance of 
I, 2 
how performed - • 
213 
taken poffeffion of by the Britifh, 162O; 
1 2 
Climate of the Cape, not unhealthy 
43 
particulars 01 this tranlaction - 3, 
4. 5 
Coal, difcovered at the Cape by the 
colonized by the Dutch in 1650 
0 
Englifh - - 20 
, 21 
its rapid population - - 
lb. 
Cobra capella, the moft dangerous fnake 
difficulties of the firft fettlers 
to. 
at the Cape 
140 
policy of the Dutch government un- 
Cold, intenfe degree of, in the Kar- 
friendly to the fettlement 
7 
roo - - 87. 96. 
lor 
extent and population of the fettk- 
Colonijls, Dutch, their mode of life, and 
ment's territory 
9 
domeftic economy 
77 
general view of the country 10, 1 1 
» 13 
their modes of agriculture 
84 
its divifion into diftrifts, and internal 
manners of the females 
8a 
government 
12 
their prolific tendency 
81 
dfcfcription of the Cape diftrift 12, 13 
1» H 
external appearance of the men 
ih. 
Cape and £^ypt, circumllances of analogy 
their neglefted education 
82 
between - - 297, 8 
their religious zeal - 82 
, 83 
Cape Toivn, defcription of - 14 
their hofpitality 
83 
population of - 
16 
fome of them treat their oxen with 
its inhabitants principally engaged in 
brutality - - 182, 
183 
mercantile tranfaftions 
48 
inftance of their inhumanity in a cafe 
their manners, focial and domeftic 48, 49 
of fhipwreck 
197 
charafter of the Cape ladies - 49,50,51 
their inanity of mind, and indo- 
difeafes to which they are liable 
43 
lence - - 
377 
longevity rare among them 
\h. 
Copper, indications of its abundance in 
their education much neglefted 
47 
the Khamiesberg 
385 
