The Native Tribes of the Transvaal (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Great Britain War Office

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1330493427 ISBN 13: 9781330493427

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2019

Synopsis

Excerpt from The Native Tribes of the Transvaal

There are many proofs of the antiquity of man in South Africa, though it has not yet been determined whether it has been the home of human beings as long as Europe. It is surmised that the Bushmen were the earliest inhabitants. These were a yellow-skinned race, pigmies in stature, and very low down in the scale of civilisation. Next came the Hottentots, another yellow people, but of medium size, and vastly superior in every way to the Bushmen. Whence they came is unknown, but it is thought they are the offspring of some male intruders* of a light brown or yellow race, who took to themselves women of Bushman blood.

Then, at a period not exactly known, but believed to be some hundreds of years, before the commencement of the Christian era, a gradual pressure of the Bantu tribes of Central Africa, into the southern part of the Continent, began to take place. Though these tribes crossed the Zambesi so long ago, it is certain that they did not extend South of the Limpopo, until a much later date. The traditions of all the tribes south of that river, none of which can be more than a few centuries old, point to a distant Northern origin, and in some instances, particulars are given which prove the tradi tions to be in that respect correct.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1330493427
• ISBN 13: 9781330493427
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 167