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INDEX. 
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may be domefticated when young - 266 
remarkable account of a Hottentot's 
efcape from - - 595» 594 
Locnjls, their depredations - 242. 248. 257 
mode of deftroying them - - 402 
Locuii-eater, bird of that name defcribed 256 
their immenfe numbers - ~ 257 
Loxia ortx, or Cardinal of the Cape, 
notices refpedling the - - 243 
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Marriages of the colonifts, abfurd law 
refpefliing the - _ _ 252 
Mili, quantity of given by African cows 135 
always ufed by the Kaffers in a coagu- 
lated Hate - - - - 170 
probable reafon for this - - ib. 
Milklajhets. of what texture - - ib. 
Millet, fpecies of, introduc-ed at the Cape 407 
Mineralogy of the Cape peninfula - 35 
Mine., filver, pretended to be found at the 
Cape - _ _ ^5 
Mifer, Dutch, and his domeftic economy 
defcribed - - 383, 384 
Mijfionaries European, their attempt to 
propagate Chriftianity among the 
Kaffers and Bosjefmans - 351. 399 
Moravian m'tjjtonaries, account of their 
eftabliOiment 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. 
olFer their fervices among the Bosjef- 
mans - - - - 399 
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Namaaquas, preparations for a journey 
into their country - _ ^^'j 
greatly diminifhed by the encroach- 
ments of the Dutch - 387, 388 
their perfons and language defcribed • 38^ 
breafts of the females large and pen- 
dant - - _ - 390 
their huts defcribed _ . _ ib. 
their employment paftoral - - ib, 
great apparent age of a female Na- 
maaqua - _ _ 398 
Nejls of birds, how conftrudled in South- 
ern Africa - - 323. 394 
Nieutueld mountains, their height, and 
component parts - 100, loi 
Nitie, how procured by tlie 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 
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Origin of the Hottentots ^ conjeftures re- 
fpedling the - - - 283 
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 
fhocking inftances of this - 182, 183 
