Identifier: pioneersinsoutha00johnuoft (find matches)
Title: Pioneers in South Africa
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Johnston, Harry Hamilton, Sir, 1858-1927
Subjects: South Africa -- Discovery and exploration South Africa -- Description and travel
Publisher: London Blackie
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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te man or heard a gun fired. They received Paterson and Van Renan very hospit-ably, and were even offended if they refused whole herdsof cattle offered to them, and merely contented themselvesby killing one or two oxen for food. The soil was ablackish loam in which could be grown anything. Theclimate was genial and water everywhere abundant, as inaddition to the copious summer rains the high mountainsin the north sent innumerable rivers and rivulets topercolate this beautiful land on their way to the IndianOcean. Once more, in the summer of 1779, Paterson set outto travel northwards from Cape Town, again accompaniedby the Dutchman, Van Renan. On their way they en-countered Colonel R. J. Gordon, and arranged a meetingin Little Namakwaland, thenceforward to pursue theirexplorations in company. Once again Paterson visitedthe Kamiesberg Mountains, which were then the mostnorthern district of Cape Colony in which any Europeansettlers existed, and from here he journeyed in zigzags HOTTENTOT
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Patersons Journeys 153 north-westward to the Atlantic coast. Along the shoreof the ocean he noted the strata of the most beautifulrocks I ever beheld, some of them white as snow, othersveined with red and other colours. Here also he ob-served that there were ancient huts or shelters constructedfrom the ribs of stranded whales and elephants bones.Such are supposed by tradition to have been inhabitedby the Strandloopers, a vanished race, whose remains areoccasionally found in caverns along the seacoast, and whoseem to have belonged to two quite different human types—one something lower and more Xegro-like than theBushman, and the other more resembling a generalizedCaucasian, perhaps the Hamitic (Somali, Gala) races ofnorth-east Africa. Near these weird-looking bone habita-tions were often to be seen immense shell heaps, con-structed by the gradual accumulation of the empty shellsof mussels, oysters, whelks, &c, the contents of which hadbeen eaten by the Strandloopers, who threw th

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