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Narrative of Four Journeys into the Country of the Hottentots, and Caffraria - In the Years One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy-Seven, Eight, and Nine (Paperback)
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Narrative of Four Journeys into the Country of the Hottentots, and Caffraria - In the Years One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy-Seven, Eight, and Nine (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - African Studies
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Later known as an administrator in Australia and founder of one of
Tasmania's earliest settlements, William Paterson (1755-1810) was
an army officer, naturalist and friend of Joseph Banks. Keenly
interested in botany from childhood, in 1777 he was dispatched to
Cape Colony on an expedition to collect plant specimens, many of
which remain in the Natural History Museum. His accounts, published
in 1789, are the observations and impressions of one of the first
Europeans to venture into the south-east of modern-day South
Africa. On his return to England he brought with him the skin and
skeleton of a giraffe, which remained on show in the British Museum
until the early twentieth century. He writes clearly and engagingly
of the people, flora and fauna, assuring the reader that the work
is 'a series of facts, noted down upon the spot, without any after
additions'.
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