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teen (at tlie time of tlie declaration lie was over a hundred) he 
had set out with his tribe, which had previously inhabited the 
coast.* 
To the north of the Korannas, and to the north and south 
of the Orange river, dwelt the Namaquas. These people, visited 
for the first time by Yan der Stell (1685), appear to have 
mixed with more northern tribes (not Hottentots), especially 
with the Damaras ; so that the actual representatives of these 
latter would be partly their descendants. There exists, at 
least among the Damaras, a legend, according to which they 
had, as first ancestors, a Namaquan father and ( horribile dictu !) 
an ape mother. This legend, which has been told me by 
hunters, is also spoken of by Wood.-f* 
The Bosjesmans are at present sufficiently recognized as 
Hottentots. All the Hottentot tribes seem to have furnished 
their contingent to these pioneers. Nevertheless, there is room 
for thinking that, besides these deserters, they also comprise 
original tribes ; and Le Yaillant even regards these as true and 
pure Hottentots. They penetrated further than all the others 
into the Karrou. They were not nomads, but they lived ex- 
clusively by hunting. 
It was probably at a more distant period that the Bosjesmans 
(Sa-an or Sa-qua) separated from the other Hottentots. They 
feared the more northern tribes ; as for those who lived more to 
the south, they seem to have known them but slightly or not at 
all. 
We find on this subject the following curious passage, 
dated the 24th April, 1654, in the journal of Yan Biebeek, the 
first governor of Cape Colony : ‘ To-day a dead Bosmanneken 
was found in the mountain, such as is called in Batavia an 
Ourang-outang. He was about the size of a small calf, with 
long and hairy arms and legs, and of a dark- grey colour. Forced 
by hunger, our people ate him/ j I must add, in defence of 
Yan Biebeek, that at this time his relations with the neighbour- 
ing Hottentots were not at all friendly, so that he could not 
gain from them any enlightenment. 
The Bosjesmans have always been driven back towards the 
interior of the country. Nowadays we meet with them nowhere 
but in the mountains of Basutoland, and in the plains of the 
Kalihari. 
The Hottentots have never been a powerful people. Ac- 
cording to the census of 1865 they numbered 81,600 in Cape 
Colony. Taking all the tribes together, I think we may 
estimate their total actual numbers at 270,000, perhaps at 
* Correspondence between Thom. Fr. Burgers and Sir Henry Barkly. 
t Wood, Nat. Hist, of Man. 
X Hall, Manual of South African Geography, Chron. Tables. 
