Memoir respecting the Kaffers, Hottentots and Bosjemans of South Africa

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OF SOUTH AFRICA. lie LIEUT-COL. SUTHERLAND, 2nd Regiment Bombay Light Cavalry. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOLUME I. CAPE TOWN : PIKE & PHILIP, 59, ST. GEORGES'-STREET. MDCCCXLV. CAPE TOWN: PIKE AND PHILIP, PRINTERS. SIR CHARLES METCALFE'S ACCEPTANCE OP THIS TRIFLE IS REQUESTED, AS SOME SMALL TOKEN OF AFFECTION AND GRATITUDE, FOR SUCH FRIENDSHIP AND PROT-CTIUN THROUGH A LONG PERIOD OF Y-EARS, AS IT HAS SELDOM BEET* THE GOOD FORTUNE OF ONE MAN TO EXPERIENCE AT THE HANDS OF ANOTHER. <_T_ SW^mHiM.-S-BS'IE). Lieut. Col. 2ud Regiment Bombay Light Cavalry, Long his Private Secretary and Aid de Camp. Cape Town, July 15, 1845. CONTENTS.— VOL. I. SECOND HEAD. LETTER TO Mr. SECRETARY MONTAGU, Dated Cradock, August 51st, 1844, PAGE. Submitting a Scheme for the Formation and Payment of a Frontier Legion, composed of the Native Tribes, to give protection to our own Frontier, and to secure peace in Kafferland, 1 THIRD HEAD.

LETTER (Duplicate of that of August 31st,) TO Mr. SECRETARY MONTAGU, Dated Graaff-Reinet, September ll.A, 1844. Existing Treaties with the Kaffers — Observations on the Treaties — Predatory Character of Chiefs and People — Proposed Amendment in the Treaties — Agency through which to control the Kaffers, and to recover from them lost Property, 16 Substance of the Treaty betwixt the Governor of the Colony and the Chiefs of Lower Kafferland, viz. : of the Slambie, Congo, and Fingo Tribes. .. .. .. .. 41 Note on the proposed Kaffer Treaty, as published in The Graham's Town Journal, of September 26th, 1844, . . 45 FIRST HEAD. RECORDS, DUTCH AND ENGLISH, REGARDING THE KAFFERS, HOTTENTOTS, AND BOSJEMANS, FROM A. D. 1650.

Part I

General condition of the Aborigines on the first arrival of Europeans among them — and some comparison of their condition with the condition of Aborigines in other parts of the world, 51