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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 March 2018
In November, 1836, Captain (afterwards Sir) James Edward Alexander was at Henkrees (29° S., 18° E.) on the southern side of the Orange River, South-West Africa, and sought for information as to what he might expect to find during his intended journey across Great Namaqualand. He says :—
‘A respectable old Bastaard lived at Henkrees, Balli by name; he was the owner of a thousand head of cattle, of many horses and sheep. … He also told me of great quantities of copper far up the Great Fish River, and of hills from which malleable iron could be cut out.
Page 28 note 1 ‘An expedition of discovery into the interior of Africa,… ,’ London, 1838, vol. i, pp. 144-145.
Page 29 note 1 loc. cit., vol. i, p. 249.
Page 29 note 2 Andersson, ‘Lake Ngami,… ,’ London. 1856, pp. 314, 347.
Page 29 note 3 Alexander. loc. cit., vol. i, pp. 238, 255; Schenck, , Petermann's Mittheilungen, 1885, vol. xxxi, p. 134 Google Scholar.
Page 29 note 4 Mittheil. aura dem naturw. Verein fiir Neu-Vorpommern und Rügen, 1900-1, 82 Jahrgaug, p. 15; Annals of the South African Museum, 1900, vol. ii, part 2, p. 23.
Page 29 note 5 ‘Reise des Ingenieurs A. Thies nach den Kupferhergwerken Namaqua-Land's in Süd-Afrika.’ Berg- und hüttenmännische Zeitung, 1860, 19 Jahrgang, pp. 41-43, 58-54.
Page 29 note 6 e.g., loc. cit., vol. i, p. 236.
Page 30 note 1 loc. cit., p. 41.
Page 30 note 2 Galton, F., ‘Narrative of an explorer in Tropical South Africa,’ New Edition, London, 1889, p. 14.Google Scholar
Page 30 note 3 loc. cit., vol. ii, p. 274.
Page 30 note 4 Journ. R. Geogr. Soc., 1838, vol. viii, p. 24.
Page 30 note 5 ‘Lake Ngami, … ,’ London, 1856, p. 325.
Page 31 note 1 Petermann's Mittheilungen, 1885, vol.xxxi, p. 182.
Page 31 note 2 Mittheil. aus dem naturw. Verein für Neu-Vorpommern und Rügen, 1900-1, 82 Jahrgang. p. 17.
Page 31 note 3 Amer. Journ. Sci., 1853, ser. 2, vol. xv, p. 1.
Page 31 note 4 Alexander, loc. cir., Vol. i, pp. 219, 227.
Page 33 note 1 loc cit., p. 325.
Page 33 note 2 ‘Notes of travel in South Africa,’ London, 1875, p. 333.
Page 33 note 3 loc. cit., p. 2.
Page 33 note 4 loc. cit., pp. 4, 334.
Page 34 note 1 loc. cit., pp. 4-5.
Page 34 note 2 loc. cit., p. 193.
Page 34 note 3 vol. i, pp. 319-320.
Page 34 note 4 Jahresh. des Vereins füt vaterl. Naturkunde in Württemberg, 1902, vol. lviii, p. 292.
Page 35 note 1 loc. cit., vol. i, p. 239.
Page 35 note 2 loc. cit., p. 157.
Page 36 note 1 Amer. Journ. Sci., 1856, ser. 2, vol. xxi, p. 213.
Page 36 note 2 Alexander, loc. cit., Introduction, p. x.
