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This proposal was seconded by Commandant Flemming, and carried. After another proposal, made by H.J. Bosman, and seconded by J.L. Grobler, had been rejected, the correspondence referred to above came under discussion. The first speaker was Mr.
The Portuguese alone bore their grievances without retaliation, Bosman said, because their goods were too poor to find markets elsewhere. The people were honest and polite, and the red-tape requirements definite and reasonable.
A memorial, signed by Mrs. H.S. Bosman, Mrs. General Louis Botha, Mrs. F. Eloff, Mrs. P.M. Botha, and Mrs. F.W. Reitz, was adopted for transmission to the Government asking for permission to make such changes in the commissariat and other departments, and ending with these two significant clauses:
From this it would appear that most of the so-called Gaboons must have been in reality Pygmies caught in the inland equatorial forests, for Bosman, who traded among the Gaboons, merely inveighed against their garrulity, their indecision, their gullibility and their fondness for strong drink, while as to their physique he observed: "they are mostly large, robust well shaped men."
He never afterwards, however, recovered the use of his limb, which had sustained considerable injury from the fangs and mere force of his jaws." Ludolph states that enormous snakes exist in Ethiopia: and Bosman informs us that entire men have been found in the gullet of serpents on the Gold coast.
Of late years it has almost faded from the map, but it is described at full length in the pages of Barbot and Bosman , of Bowdich , and of Dupuis . They assign to it for limits Mandenga-land to the north and west; to the south, Aowin and Bassam, and the Tando or eastern fork of the Assini to the east.
Lenz , Bouet-Williaumez , Hecquard , Bosman , and Baker all bear witness to this, and Schweinfurth tells us of great cattle parks with two to three thousand head and of numerous agricultural and cattle-raising tribes. The Negroid Gallas have seven or eight cattle to each inhabitant. Livingstone bears witness to the busy cattle raising of the Bantus and Kaffirs.
A very instructive work, entering into many details on subjects not generally noticed by travellers, but to which, the thoughts and enquiries of the author, as a medical man, were naturally drawn. Description of the Coast of Guinea. By W. Bosman, translated from the Dutch, 1703. 8vo.
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