File Db4 - Account of motor tour in South West Africa

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ZA HPRA A839-D-Db-Db4

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Account of motor tour in South West Africa

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  • 1928 (Creation)

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Holograph, 79 pages

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Describes Windhoek and Herero tribe; Hereros almost committed race suicide rather than submit to German rule. In last 7 years of German occupation no Herero children born. Visits his sinter Mary and brother-in-law W.R. Feldtmann at Grootfontein and while with them visits mine at Tsumeb and Namutoni at Etosha Pan. There he saw Ovambo tribesmen going to work at Luderitz naked. Watches display by bushman of dancing, archery and fire- making. Visits Swakopmund, Walvis Bay and across Kalahari to Kuruman whore ho sees vast horde of game. At Malmani he sees a fluorspar mine but does not on this occasion moot J.G. Gubbins about whom he says, "Mr. Gubbins has about the beet collection of books and manuscripts in South Africa.".

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