Note on a Fire-Flint of Strandlooper Origin. 
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There is much probability that fire-flints were introduced to the 
Strandloopers by Europeans. They are mentioned by various writers of past 
centuries as suitable objects for barter with the natives. John Barrow, 
referring to some Kaffirs whom he met on the Kareiga River (1797), says : 
" They received each a small present, consisting of tobacco, knives, flints and 
steels, tinder-boxes, and a few glass beads. These are the sort of articles 
which the farmers have been in the habit of exchanging for their valuable 
breed of cattle.' 1 
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