1631 - The Khoikhoi leader Autsumao, is taken to Batavia and is later returned to the Cape to serve as an interpreter.
Armed with a background in European and classical philology, he pioneered in the study of Xhosa and Khoikhoi languages.
In 1933, the Malden News described them as "the most mousey, dilapidated, antique stations to be found this side of the land of the Hottentots".
100,000 BC - San or Bushmen (hunter-gatherers) are gradually displaced by the Khoikhoi (agri-pastoralists)
This was published in 1917 and met with the disapproval of General Hertzog, the then Prime Minister, who was upset by passages describing the poor treatment meted out to the Khoikhoi by the settlers.
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The first people to permanently settle at this place, then only known under its Khoikhoi name ǃAutsawises, were a group of Khoi herder clans from the Cape Province, driven across the Orange River by encroaching European settlers and the law enforcement of the Dutch East India Company.
After a few years in Lund, he undertook (1750–51) a scientific expedition to the Netherlands and France, after which he initially wanted to go as a missionary to the Khoikhoi people of South Africa or to the Lenape native Americans of Pennsylvania.