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Updated: June 10, 2025


The principal travellers who have visited this part of Africa, and from whose travels the best information may be obtained of the settlement of the Cape, and of the country to the north of it for about 900 miles, are Kolbein, Sparman, Le Vaillant, Barrow, Lichtenstein, La Trobe, Campbell, and Burcheli.

This work was originally published in Swedish; it is interesting, not only on account of the valuable information it conveys on natural history, especially botany, and on the manners, &c. of the people, but likewise for the perseverance and zeal with which Sparman, without friends, assistance, and almost without pecuniary assistance, forced his way into remote and barbarous districts.

Notwithstanding this drawback, Levaillant's Travels are valuable for the light they throw on the natural history of the South of Africa. Voyage to the Cape of Good Hope, 1772-1776. By Sparman, 1785. 2 vols. 4to.

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