Arbousset, Jean Thomas Narrative of an exploratory tour to the north-east of the colony of the Cape of Good Hope Cape Town 1846
Arbousset, Jean Thomas. Narrative of an exploratory tour to the north-east of the colony of the Cape of Good Hope. By the Revs. T. Arbousset and F. Daumas, of the Paris Missionary Society. Translated from the French . . . by John Crombie Brown. Cape Town: A. S. Robertson; Saul Solomon & Co., 1846. xii, 313(1) pp. 8vo, half green morocco, spine gilt, t.e.g. First edition in English; first published in Paris in 1842. An important and vivid account of the three months' tour by two French Protestant missionaries, who were stationed in Basutoland, to the region of South Africa between the Orange and the Vall rivers, mainly inhabited by the Bechuanas. Much of the information here had not previously appeared in print. Included are details of the Bushmen, the Basutos, the Bechuanas, the Griquas, and other nations; there is a full description of the Zulus, and their army. "The Boers are severely condemned for their immoral and cruel habits, which, it is stated, 'excited a very strong feeling against us among the natives.' They are charged with stealing the children of the Buushmen, who were forced to live in bushes and caverns to escape their rapacity, but 'even here the Dutch Boers discover them . . . fire on their kraals, kidnap the children, and when they can, carry off even adults.'" -- Mendelssohn, p. 50. Notes on the various languages contain lists of Seroa, Zulu, and Sesuto vocabulary. A fine copy of a scarce Cape Town imprint; an edition printed in London in 1852 is more common. Theal, p. 13.
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