History of South Africa 1691-1795S. Sonnenschein & Company, 1888 - 419 pages |
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Adriaan appointed April arrived ashore August Bantu Batavia burgher councillors burghers Bushmen Cape colony Cape Town Captain castle cattle chief church clans clergyman coast colonists command Commissioner Sluysken Company's council of policy court of justice crew December died directors district Drakenstein Dutch duty East India Company Elizabet English Europe Europeans expedition farm farmers February fiscal Fish river fleet French garrison governor Graaff Reinet head heemraden Hendrik Holland Hottentots hundred instructions Jacob June Kaffirs Kosa kraal land landdrost legger living March Marie Maynier mountains muids Muizenburg Namaquas named natives nearly Netherlands November obtained October officers party Pierre Pieter Plettenberg Reenen request Rhenius Ryk Tulbagh sailed Saldanha Bay secunde sent September ships Simon's Bay Simon's Town slaves South Africa Stel Stellenbosch Susanne Swellendam Swellengrebel Table Bay Tembu took trade tribe troops Tulbagh vessel waggons Waveren wheat Willem wine wreck
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Page 119 - ... is divided between Upper and Lower Canada, in the proportion of two-thirds to the former and one-third to the latter.
Page 364 - Catalogue of Plants. In these chapters the author gives an account of Cape Town and its inhabitants, a description of the government, an account of an excursion to Klapmuts and Stellenbosch, particulars of the commerce of the colony, &c. He draws a broad line of distinction between the inhabitants of the town and those of the country, and institutes a comparison greatly in favour of the farmers. He denounces the rapacity of the public servants and the arbitrary nature of the government, and recommends...
Page 207 - ... and paved with large square stones. The front corridor is seven feet wide. The separating wall is very massive, and has three doors, a large one in the centre, and a smaller one on each side. In this corridor, on each side of the principal door, is a large tablet of hieroglyphics, each thirteen feet long and eight feet high, and each divided into two hundred and forty squares of characters or symbols.
Page 364 - Translated from the original Dutch by Samuel Hull Wilcocke. With Notes and Additions by the Translator. The whole comprising a full and accurate Account of all the present and late Possessions of the Dutch in India and at the Cape of Good Hope.
Page 369 - Reizen naar de Kaap de Goede Hoop, lerland, en Noorwegen, in de Jaren 1791 tot 1797.
Page 370 - An octavo volume of one hundred and fifty-six pages, published at the Hague in 1803. The items in this work of greatest interest to a student of Cape history are some official documents connected with the arrival of Admiral Elphinstone's fleet in Simon's Bay in 1795, and to the subsequent intercourse between the English...
Page 141 - ... for the whole circumference of the earth. The position of the stars in De la Caille's chart was found to be equally accurate. Saturday the 8th of April 1752 was observed by the Europeans in South Africa as a day of thanksgiving to Almighty God for the undisturbed possession of the colony by the Company for a hundred years. Special services were held in the churches at Capetown, Stellenbosch, Drakenstein, Roodezand, and Zwartland.
Page 87 - ... violence against them. When the criminal conduct of this party became known, free barter was suspended again. But as usual the new prohibition was ineffective. A new scandal arose in 1726, when the Hottentots at the river Zonderend complained to the government that they were exposed to the depredations of vagrant Europeans, "who professed to visit them for purposes of trade, but in reality robbed them of cattle
Page 261 - A little after dawn, one of them — the outward bound ship Jonge Thomas — was driven from her anchors and cast on the beach beyond the mouth of Salt River. It was seen that the wreck could not hold together long, but for some time nothing was done to save the crew. In the course of the morning, however, a dairyman named Wolraad Woltemaade...
Page 167 - ... according as one regards the right of property in the soil by a race of nomads, themselves the descendants of immigrants, unacquainted with agriculture. In the parts of the country long settled there were tracts of land specially reserved for their use, and on the border there was plenty of open ground for them and their cattle, so that this question was not a pressing one. It had already been noticed, and was as well recognised then as it is now, that nearly every case of cruelty by colonists...