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Livres

g. of Richard Bamberger

Rec. March 20, 1942

LONDON:

Printed by WILLIAM CLOWES,
Stamford-street.

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CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME.

Origin of the Bushmen.-Exaggerated reports of their phy-

sical and moral deformities.-Evidence of their natural

good qualities. Colonel Collins's report suggesting

means for their improvement.-Commencement of mis-

sionary stations at Toverberg and Hephzibah

Abolition of the Bushman missions by the Colonial Govern-

ment.-Testimonies of their beneficial effects.-Appear-

ance of Toverberg, when visited by the author.-Motives

of the colonists in conspiring against these missions.-A

Commando, to extirpate the Bushmen, recommended by

the Commission of Circuit, in 1816.—Continuance of this

Exclamation of a Bushman on going to be executed.-De-

scription of the State of the Bushmen in 1823.-Mr.

George Thompson's Account of the Commando system.

-Feelings of the Colonists on this point.-Comparative

Humanity of the Dutch and English Governments.—

Present Condition of the Bushmen.-Interview with

Uithaalder, the Bushman Chief

Mission to the Griquas.-Origin of this Tribe.-Their former

savage State.-Effects of the Missionaries' Labours

among them.Their Settlement at Klaarwater, now Gri-

qua Town.-Ordered by the Colonial Government to fur-

nish Recruits for the Cape Corps.-Refuse to accede to

this Conscription.-Injustice and Impolicy of the Mea-

sure. Plan to seize the Griquas during the Beaufort

Appointment of Mr. Melvill as a political agent at Griqua

Town.-Jealousies and Dissensions.-The Bergenaars.-

Their barbarous conduct towards the Native Tribes.-

Bechuana Refugees.-Description of a Party of them.-

Author's Journal.-Arrival at Philippolis.-Meet with

more Bechuanas.-Arrival at Rama.-Colonial Traders.

-Alexander River.-Interview with the Bergenaars.-

Arrival at Griqua Town.-State of the People.-General

Convocation-Resolutions passed at it

Journey to the Bechuana Country.-Interview with Bushmen.

-Berands the Griqua Chief.-Bushmen's mode of de-

stroying Lions. Arrival at the Kuruman.-Improve-

ments introduced by the Missionaries.-Superstition of

the Bechuanas.-Intelligent Conduct of the Chief Ma-

Visit to the deserted Town of Lattakoo.-Its desolate appear-

ance.-Desert of Kalleghanny.-Visit to Mateebe's Camp.

-Interview with the King and his Family.-Great dif-

ference in the appearance of the Chiefs and the Common

People. Teysho and his Family.-Standard by which the

People estimate presents.-Government.-Public Assem-

blies

Character of the Bechuanas.-Thraldom of the Women.-Anec-

dote of Mahuri's Humanity.-Famished state of the Lower

Classes.--Great Extension of the Bechuana or Caffer Lan-

guage.-Importance of the Bechuana Country as a Field

of Missions.--Mr. Moffat's Visit to Makabba, King of the

Caffer Mission.-Effects of Dr. Vanderkemp's labours.-Re-

newal of the Mission in 1816.-Exploratory Excursion,

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-Anxiety of the Caffers to obtain Missionaries.-Un-

friendly sentiments of the Colonists.-Settlement of Mr.

Williams at the Kat River.-Progress of his labours.—

Visit of the Governor, and his conference with Gaika.—

Conduct of Colonel Cuyler

Illness and Death of Mr. Williams.-Distressing situation of his

Widow.-Attachment of the People.-The Chief Sicana.

-Specimen of his Poetry.-Settlement of Mr. Brownlee

at the Chumi.-His Account of the State of the People.—

Treatment of the Ghonaquas.-Mr. Brownlee's Visit to

Hinza.-New Institution at the Buffalo River.-Exer-

tions of the Glasgow and Wesleyan Missionaries in Caf-

ferland.-Latest Accounts

Namaqua Hottentots.-Their former condition.-Difficulty of

enforcing habits of cleanliness.-Mr. Schmelen's labours

at Bethany.-Proposal of Sir Jahleel Brenton.-History

of the robber Africaner.-His plundering excursions—

Conversion by the Missionaries-Visit to Cape Town-

Exemplary conduct after he became a Christian-Death

Effects of the Missions in promoting Peace among the Native

Tribes and Security to the Colonial Frontier.-Testimo-

nies in regard to this point by Mr. Melvill, Colonel

Fraser, Dr. Lichtenstein, Mr. Barrow, &c.-Defence of

Theopolis in 1819.-Dangers from which the Colony has

been saved by the Conciliation of the Hottentots.-Ob-

jections against the Stations beyond the Colony, as afford-

ing a refuge to Deserters and Runaways, &c. refuted.-

Abuses of the Colonists in supplying the Banditti with

Ammunition not restrained by Government.-False Alle-

gations of Peterson, the convict, against Africaner's Kraal 226

Mr. Buxton's Motion in Parliament, in 1824, calling for Infor-

mation respecting the Condition of the Coloured Popu-

lation at the Cape.-Unsatisfactory Character of the

Documents produced. Remarks of the Commissioners

of Inquiry.Examination of the Parliamentary Re-

turn. Grants of Land to Hottentots.-Lord Charles

Somerset's Statement.-Mr. George Thompson's State-

ment.-Case of the Hottentot Zwarts.-Actual State of

the Aborigines in regard to holding Land

Official Return of Commandoes against the Bushmen.-Com-

mandant Nel's Confessions.-Humane pretences of the

Colonial Government.-Letter to Rev. B. Shaw.-Traffic

in Bushmen Children.-Pretexts of the Colonists for con-

tinuing this Traffic.-Comparative Humanity of the Dutch

ånd English Governments towards the Bushmen.-Real

objects of Commandoes

Knowledge possessed by the Colonial Government of the

Traffic in Bushmen Children at the period when the

Missions to that people were suppressed.-Letters from

Messrs. Read and Smith on the Suppression of these Mis-

sions.-Statement of the Commissioners of Inquiry re-

specting the Bushmen.-Appeal to the British Public in

regard to the cruel treatment of the Bushman Nation

Examination of the Report of the Commissioners of Inquiry

respecting the Bechuana Refugees.-Disorders occasioned

by the Bergenaars, fomented by the Frontier Colonists.-

Mr. Melvill's Journey to Cape Town, and Correspondence

on the subject with the Colonial Government.-Conduct

of the Colonial Government on this Occasion.-Remarks

of the Commissioners on the Occupation of the Bushman

Country. Situation of the Bastaard Population on the

Northern Frontier.-Connivance of the Government in

the Encroachments of the Boors.-Means suggested by

the Commissioners for the Improvement of the Coloured

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