Fait pendant les annees 1796 et 1801…Second French edition. 8vo. Contemporary quarter calf, extremities worn. [2], iii, [blank], 367pp. Paris, Dentu, 1806.
Percival spent a total of only four months at the Cape in 1796 and 1801 and yet produced a work full of information highlighting the state of the Colony around the turn of that century. His dim view of the Dutch government prompts him to stress the value of the Cape as a British possession. Mendelssohn II, p152; Theal, p232.
