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GEOGRAPHICAL 
Mr. Barrow's quarto, I perfectly agree with Professor Lichtenstein, * tnat it 
is so defective that it can seldom be found of any use. That which is given 
in Lichtenstein's work, is certainly the best general map of the Colony that 
has hitherto appeared, and is, as it is stated, indebted for its superiority to the 
use of a manuscript map, made under the late Dutch Government. This, I 
conclude to be the same as one made by order of the Dutch Governor, 
Vandegraaff, of which I have seen a copy, the title purporting that the sea- 
coast and soundings from Algoa bay to St. Helena bay, were surveyed by 
Captain Duminy, and the maritime districts, or a narrow tract of land 
along the same length of coast, by Lieutenants Frederici and Jones ; ex- 
cepting however, the country from Simon's bay to Zwellendani, which was 
a blank. From this source combined with some others, and the sketches 
above mentioned, I have drawn materials for filling up the parts lying at a 
distance from my own track. 
I have taken a few names out of those published by Arrowsmith, and 
have made some use of one compiled by De la Rochette, probably from the 
observations of the Abb^ de la Caille. But in this, great caution was required, 
as it contains some extraordinary inaccuracies. From Lichtenstein's map 
I have adopted some names in the Great Karro, and in like manner, about 
thirteen, chiefly the names of boors, along the Sunday River, southward 
of Graaffreynet, from a small manuscript copy of a military sketch by 
Colonel Arbuthnot, in which however, the variation of the compass had 
not been attended to. Along the coast I have inserted, out of different 
sea-charts, various names not in use among the inhabitants j these are en- 
closed by crochets. Neither from Sparrman's map, or Paterson's, which is 
only a copy of it, nor from Le Vaillant's, could 1 venture to appropriate 
any thing more than the mere names. 
But here it must be owned, that with respect to the situations of 
places, I did not rely upon any one map, even the best. The positions I 
have assigned to these names, are the mean result of all the maps and 
journals combined ; and which have occasioned me the most troublesome 
part of my labor, and are a sufficient excuse for mistakes, should any be 
found in this part of my work. 
Many places at a considerable distance out of my track, have been 
beasts; here you will see the Buffalo, the Hyena, and the wonderful Secretarj' -bird f, with his 
pen stuck behind his ear." 
* " Travels in Southern Africa.'' Engl, ed, vol. 1. p. 36. — Dutch ed. deel 1. bl. 70. 
f Barrow's Travels, page 139. 
