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NAMAQUALAND
Survey of the coastal region of Damara and Great Namaqualand, in Namibia, with the northern coast of Little Namaqualand, in South Africa, including rivers and other features, 1 July 1829

3 November 2015, 13:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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NAMAQUALAND

Survey of the coastal region of Damara and Great Namaqualand, in Namibia, with the northern coast of Little Namaqualand, in South Africa, including rivers and other features; annotated with observations such as "Abounds with Elephants", "Sandy & very little Water/ Bushmen" and "Bushman Kraal (where Mr Threlfall was murdered" [in 1826], marked up with longitude and latitude, and inscribed below: "NB. This Plan is formed by Mr. Melville, according to informations given by Missionaries, who Travelled in that County – The coast, and Latitude and Longitude taken from Capt. Owens' chart – WFred Herzog/ 1 July 1829", light overall time-staining with some slight fox-marks, originally folded in four, 210 x 340mm., 1 July 1829

Footnotes

'ABOUNDS WITH ELEPHANTS' – an early sketch map of the Namibian coast. The principal author, John Melville, was a member of the London Missionary Society, and had accompanied Livingstone's father-in-law Robert Moffat on his travels in Namaqualand. Captain William Fitzwilliam Owen, who provided details of the coast, commanded HMS Leven on her epic survey of some 30,000 nautical miles of African coast between 1823 and 1826. The inscription below, which is in a different hand from that of the main map (and is evidently autograph) is by Frederick Herzog FRGS, who served as Assistant Surveyor-General at the Cape of Good Hope from 1828 to 1846.

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