Travels into the Interior of Southern Africa. In which are described the Character and the Condition of the Dutch Colonists of the Cape of Good Hope and the several Tribes of Natives beyond its Limit. ...Comprehending also A Topographical and Statistical

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Sketch of the Cape Colony...2 vols. Second and best edition with additions ...London: T. Cadell and W. Davies 1806. 4to. Orig. full calf with gilt borders to front & rear covers. Spines rebacked. Marbled end-papers. With 8 full-page coloured aquatints by S. Daniell 9 fold. charts of which the coloured ones show some offsetting and Direction for Placing the Plates leaf. A particularly fine crisp copy. NOTE: Sir John Barrow accompanied Lord Macartney as his private secretary when he was sent out to South Africa during the first British occupation as one of the Governors of the Cape Colony. "Lord Macartney at once sent him on a double mission-to reconcile the Kaffirs and Boers and to obtain more accurate topographical knowledge of the colony there being then no map which embraced one-tenth of it. In pursuit of these objects he traversed every part of the colony and visited the several countries of the Kaffirs the Hottentots and the Bosjemen performing a journey exceeding 1 000 miles on horseback on foot and very rarely in a covered wagon." In 1802 the Cape was evacuated and Barrow returned to England where he was appointed Second Secretary to the Admiralty owing the appointment largely to the excellent work he had done in South Africa and in the production of this work. The first volume relates to his travels and the second volume to the various parts of the colony details regarding the inhabitants and the importance of the country from a military and commercial standpoint.