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This volume includes the pioneering journey into Namaqualand by Hendrik Hop, a Stellenbosch farmer who was accompanied by the by the Cape surveyor and map-maker, Carel Brink.
Also included is a brief journal of the trading journey of Johannes Rhenius of Berlin, made nearly 40 years before that of Hop. His account is of particular interest because of his encounters with Khoi people distant from the Cape settlement
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Hendrik Hop was born in the Cape in 1716, the son of a wealthy farmer in “Slot van Paarl” in the Drakenstein area. Later in live Hop continued the farming avtivities on his farther’s farm. He played a leading part in the community and served four terms as heemraad of Stellenbosch.
The claim by Jacvob Coetzee that he was the firste white man to visit the region north of the Orange River (Groot Rivier) prompted Hops desire to conduct a similar journey.
The exproring party consisting of many burgers and Hottentots and also invcluded the suveroy Carel Frederich Brink as well as the garderner of the company garden. in augusr 1761
They went as far north as the present Keetmanshoop in today’s Namibia.
Ja.n de la Fonuiinc• on an overland journey to Mossel Bay in 1734.
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A page from Brink’s journal
A page from Brink’s journalHendrik Hop was a Stellenbosch farmer who led a pioneering journey into Namaqualand. The account of the journey is told by the Cape surveyor and map-maker, Carel Brink. Accompanying this record is the brief journal of the trading journey of Johannes Rhenius of Berlin, made nearly 40 years before that of Hop. His account is of particular interest because of his encounters with Khoi people distant from the Cape settlement.
Section of a map of Namaqualand
| … vervolgen, waer op die meeste aannamen, zig te beraden, en hun gevoelen op morgen te seggen.
Sondag den 6 Decbr. Na dat den Commandant alle de reijsgesellen weederom by een geroepen en haarl. Resolutie op de gisteren door hem gedaane voorstelling hadde afgevraagd, soo wierd door deselve eenpariglijk betuijgd, dat nadien haarl. wagens, door de langduurige en doorgaans door d’allermoeyelijkste weegen gedaane togt, niet alleen ten eenemaal ontramponeerd, maar de daar voor treckende ossen ook genoegsaam in ‘t geheel afgemat, en dus meerendeels buijten staat om met deselve langer overweg te komen, waaren geraakt, en dat insonderheijd volgens de bekoomene berigten, op den verderen weg, die men nog souden moeten passeeren, schier geen water te vinden zijnde, dit gebrek door de dagelijxe toeneemende hitte notoir soude komen te vermeerderen, zyl. het oversulx volstrekt ondoenelijk oordeelden, het land dieper in te trecken, en dat men om selfs op onsen te rug togt door gebrek aan water in geen ongeleegentheijd te vervallen, zig alhier niet langer behoorde op te houden, maar de reijze ten spoedigsten weederom Caabwaards aan te neemen, met byvoeging wyders, dat zy verhoopten, dat onse hooge gebieders, goedgunstelijk overweegende, met wat lijdsaamheijd, moeijte en gevaaren zy deesen togt tot hier toe hadden afgelegd, zig van derselver bereijdwilligheijd om (by aldien sulx maar doenelijk waare geweest) het land verder in te trecken, en dus doende het voorgestelde oogmerk te bereijken, wel zouden gelieven verseekert te houden. Waarop dan beslooten wierd, om langs denselven weg die wy tot hier toe hadden genoomen, de te rug reijze aan te neemen. Wy bevonden ons hier op de distantie van 120½ mylen regt noord van Cabo de goede hoop, 5 3/4 mylen westlyker als de regte noordlijn en 21 3/4 mylen regt noorden, verder als den burger Jacobus Coetsee in ‘t jaar 1760 geweest is. Voor ‘t overige werd deese gantsche Landstreek van de groote rivier … |
… Coetse and Marais, asking them at the same time to consider what ought further to be done and how best the journey might be continued. Whereupon the majority agreed to give it thought and express their opinions in the morning.
Sunday 6th Dec. When the Commander had again called all the company together and asked them for their decision on the proposal made by him yesterday they unanimously declared that — because their wagons had become completely useless by the long continued and most laborious journey, and because their draught-oxen were totally exhausted and thus in no condition to draw them any farther, and especially because from the report received of the road ahead which must still be traversed hardly any water would be found and this deficiency would considerably increase with the daily increasing heat — they judged it inadvisable to remain here any longer in order to avoid possible suffering and inconvenience even on the return journey through lack of water; but considered that we should return to the Cape as soon as possible — adding that they hoped our Supreme Authorities, taking into consideration with what patience, toil and peril they had so far completed the journey, would rest assured that had it been possible they would have travelled further inland with cheerful readiness in order to attain the desired object. On this it was resolved to commence our return journey by the same route on which we had thus far come. We found ourselves here at a distance of 120½ miles directly north of Cabo de Goede Hoop, 5 3/4 miles westerly of its exact Longitude and 21 3/4 miles directly north of the place reached by the burgher Jacobus Coetse in the year 1760. For the rest this … |
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