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Title: Travels and adventures in southern Africa
Year: 1827 (1820s)
Authors: Thompson, George
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Publisher: (London H. Colburn)
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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omes less refined in proportion to theirgradual descent in the scale of society. CONCLUSION. 435 If it be objected that I have spoken in too sanguine terms of the prospectsof Southern Africa, I can only reply, that I should be ashamed if I could speakcoldly on such a subject. There I have passed in happiness the first years ofray active life, and laid up experience sufficient, I trust, to guide my stepshereafter. There I have encountered some dangers, and there experiencedthe forbearance, hospitality, and protection of all classes of people, from thewandering savage of the desert, to the highest ranks of civilized society.I have met with but little unkindness even from those quarters where com-mercial rivalry may be supposed not to engender the best feelings. I judgeof the future by the past; and many must be the storms I encounter in myfarther voyage through life, before I shall cease to esteem the place of myresidence in the fullest sense of the word, as the Cape of Good Hope. 3 K 2
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■»-^--^J~-^^~--f ■ •^ ^i^-*V^ ^^ <«Oi^^» <r;<«S» . APPENDIX. APPENDIX. No. I.ACCOUNT OF THE AMAKOSiE, OR SOUTHERN GAFFERS.* History.—Government.—Crimes and Punishments,—Sorcery.—Religion and Superstitions.—Circumcision.—Marriage.—Medicine and Surgery.—Funeral Rites.—Dress.—Ornaments.—Agriculture.—Hunting.—Language.—Description of tJte Country. —Jowney through theAmakosa territory,—Interview with Hinza, the principal Chief. HisTOEY.—The national appellation of the Southern Caffers is Amakosa, the singular ofwhich is Kosa. Their country is sometimes called Amakosina.- According to the traditionary accounts which I have collected from their old people, thistribe first settled on the Great Kei River under their chief, Toguh ; but whether they werea colony from the Tambookie or Amatymha tribe, or from some of the nations farther to thenorth-east, I have not been able to ascertain. The period of their emigration, as nearly as canbe colle

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