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THE NEW AFRICA 
of the jutting cliff bordering the crown of the Indoomeni 
mountain in Natal, which I was fortunate enough to 
have copied by a water-colour artist in Natal, and these 
paintings are herewith submitted to the reader’s kindly 
observation. 
Many experts in these matters are of opinion that these 
paintings are a kind of sign-writing, to express to other 
Bushmen visiting the spot later, what has taken place in 
that district; and since in many cases there is no appearance 
of white people, or 
people with clothes, 
amongst these pro- 
ductions, it is 
argued with reason 
that this is a cer¬ 
tain indication that 
such were not 
known to the 
people at the time 
the paintings were 
executed. Conse¬ 
quently the date of 
their being painted 
cannot be later 
than the occupa¬ 
tion of these coun¬ 
tries by whites, 
somewhere in the 
early thirties of 
this century. To 
detail the history 
and depredations 
of these fierce little marauders on the incoming whites does 
not fall within the province of this work, and I feel already 
the necessity of apologising to the reader for the transgres¬ 
sion thus far. 
BUSHMAN PAINTINGS 
