The Peoples Natural History Embracing Living Animals Of The World And Living Races Of Mankind Volume 5 PDF Download

Excerpt from The People's Natural History, Vol. 5: Embracing Living Animals of the World and Living Races of Mankind; Africa, Europe, America The most southerly of the small light-coloured races is that known as the Bushmen, or Saans; or, as some call themselves, the Khwai, or men. They are now scattered over the region south of a line from Walfish Bay in lat. 22° S. To lat. 17° in the Zambesi Valley, and thence southward past Lake Ngami and Bechuanaland to the south-eastern coast near Port. Elizabeth. In this area the Bushmen are scattered very irregularly. They have been almost exterminated in Cape Colony in punishment for their habit of sheep-stealing; and throughout. South Africa their numbers have been greatly reduced. At one time the race was more numerous and more widely distributed. A Dutch ship under Corporal Thomas Kohma found them in 1767 all along the west coast as far north as 12° 47' S. Lat. The Bechuanas call the country to the west of them Baroa-that is, the country of the Bushmen - though it is now occupied by Negroes. There can, in fact, be no doubt that they once occurred throughout the whole of Africa south of the Zambesi, and they may have extended farther northward. The number of the race now living is uncertain. They are estimated at about in German South-west Africa. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.