First edition. 2 vols. 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards, with paper labels to spines, extremities rubbed. [viii], 432; [vi], 720pp. Cape Town, Pike & Philip, 1845 &, 1846.
A “valuable compilation based on Moodie’s Records and the works of many of the early writers on South African matters” (Mendelssohn). Sutherland, whilst on leave from India, travelled throughout the North-Eastern Districts of South Africa compiling information from his own observations and from his discussions with the resident Agents. As a result he was able to put together “a body of evidence… which may be of use to any person who may hereafter become the historian of the conditioni of the aborigines in South Africa…” Mendelssohn II, p453.
