Hendrik Swellengrebel in Africa - Journals of Three Journeys (VRS II No. 49)

Swellengrebel travelled into the interior three times. The first journey (18th to 31st July 1776) was to the West coast, to the bays of Saldhana and St. Helena. The second journey lasted much longer (10th September to 26th December 1776) and took him through the less well-known and sparsely populated parts of the colony, even across the frontier: through Drakenstein and Graaff-Reinet to the Fish River, across the river into what was then known to colonists as Kafferland and back along the southern coast. The third journey (12th to 29th January 1777) went north to the Heerenlogement Mountains and the district of the Twenty-Four Rivers. In this volume Swellengrebels journals of his three journeys are published for the first time in their entirety in the original Dutch and in an English translation. Together with an introduction and annotations they provide an image of the Cape Colony often quite different from that provided by other travellers of the same period.

Hardcover. English. The Van Riebeeck Socirty. 2018. ISBN: 9780994720702. 213 pp. Good with good dw. Book No: 2506386