INDEX. 
Slavery, its pernicious efFefls - - 47 
Siieuivherg, mountains of, their compo- 
nent parts, and vegetable produc- 
tloiis - _ 246, 247 
deftitute of (lirubbery, and the reafou 
247, 248 
produdlions of this diftri£1:, and its 
advantages and inconveniences - 250 
character of its colonifts - - 251 
Soap, how formed at the Cape - 51 
Soda, might be procured in abundance 
at the Cape - - 92 
Soil, its fertility in various places - 135 
Spiders, remarkable account of - 392 
Spring-bok, deftroyed in great numbers 
as game - _ -118 
Springs, medicinal, noticed - 334. 355 
Staaten, Ifland of. Settlement formed at 
the, for the Southern Whale- 
fifhery - _ _ j 
Stala8ites, account of a mafs of -211 
Stream, hot, account of - 73, 74 
Sugar-cane, wild and uncultivated - 67 
T 
Table mountain, defcription of - _ 33 
view of its ftratification - - 36 
grand view from its fummit . 37 
caufes of the phenomenon of the cloud 
on its fummit _ _ '39 
Tatooing prevalent among the Kaffers - 216 
T/fOT/^ra/rw-if, remarkable variation of - 337 
y^fr???!?^!?/!?^, its remarkable variations 190. 238 
probable caufe - _ lb. 
Thrufloes, many kinds of, in Southern 
Africa _ - - 224 
Thunder-Jlorm defcribed - . 320 
Timber, kinds of, produced at the 
Cape - 19' 20. 133. 339 
Timber — page 
for building, fcarce and expeniive - 20 
for fuel, mode of procuring - _ ib. 
Troglodytes, Bosjefmans refemble the, and 
eat the larvs of ants and locufts 282 — 284 
Vaillant, remarks on an affertion of that 
author - - 279, 280 
his veracity called in queftion - 360 
criticifm on his books of travels - ib. 
an erroneous affertion of, correfted - 382 
Vegetable productions, abundant - 24 
account of a variety of them - 25, 26, 27 
Villages, account of fome in the neigh- 
bourhood of the Cape - 63, 64 
Vines, culture of - - - 23, 24 
Vultures, various kinds of, mentioned - 267 
Unicorn, figure of an animal refembling 
it difcovered - - - 3 '3 
confiderations rendering probable the 
cxiftence of fuch an animal 313 — 319 
Viverra, various fpecies of that genus 
noticed - - 231, 232 
W 
Water, great want of, experienced 
121. 328-333 
when a traveller may escpeft to meet 
with - - _ 9^ 
Weather, view of the, at the Cape - 40, 4 1 
its mean temperature - - 41 
Whale fjhery eftablifhed at the Cape - 32 
of Africa defcribed - 303 
Winds, prevalent at the Cape - 40, 41 
Wine, Conftantia - - 23 
Wines of the Cape, account of - 64, 65, 66 
Woody 
