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A history of the Xhosa, c1700-1835

by J. B. (Jeffrey B.) Peires




Institution: Rhodes University
Department: Faculty of Humanities, History
Degree: MA
Year: 1977
Keywords: Xhosa (African people)  – History
Record ID: 1497068
Full text PDF: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1013024


Abstract

The boundaries of the territory occupied by the Xhosa fluctuated considerably, but in the period 1700-1835 they did not often extend west of the Sundays River, or east of the Mbashe River, along the coastal strip which separates the escarpment of South Africa's inland plateau from the Indian Ocean. It is an area of temperate grassland, permitting the cultivation of cereals and light crops, such as maize, millet, tobacco and pumpkins but better suited to stock-farming than intensive agriculture.