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*''Travels in the Interior of Southern Africa'' by William J Burchell. [https://archive.org/details/travelsininterio11822burc/page/n7/mode/2up Volume I] 1822, including [https://archive.org/details/travelsininterio11822burc/page/n640/mode/1up Map]; [https://archive.org/details/travelsininterio21824burc/page/n10/mode/2up Volume II] 1824. Archive.org. The travels took place 1811-1815.
:Article "Heartbroken on St Helena: the naturalist William John Burchell" 1781-1863. [https://blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/2020/01/heartbroken-on-st-helena-the-naturalist-william-john-burchell-part-one.html Part One] 23 January 2020; [https://blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/2020/01/heartbroken-on-st-helena-the-naturalist-william-john-burchell-part-two.html Part Two] 30 January 2020. British Library Untold lives blog. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_John_Burchell William John Burchell] Wikipedia.
*[http://nlirepository.nvli.in//handle/123456789/20299 ''A Subaltern's Sick Leave: Rough notes of a visit in search of health to China and the Cape of Good Hope''] by Nicolas Polson, Bengal Native Infantry 1837. Link to a pdf download, or direct [http://nlirepository.nvli.in/bitstream/123456789/20299/1/NL0048.pdf pdf link] National Library of India Digital Collection. [https://archive.org/details/dli.ministry.30753 Archive.org mirror version]. Elsewhere it is stated the author was in fact Lieutenant Peter Nicholson (or Nicolson). He sailed from Calcutta July 1835.
*[https://archive.org/details/ldpd_10836931_000/page/n4 ''History of the colony of Natal, South Africa: To which is added, an appendix, containing a brief history of the Orange-River sovereignty and of the various races inhabiting it, the great lake N'Gami, commandoes of the Dutch Boers, &c., &c.''] by The Rev. William C Holden 1855 Archive.org
*''Austral Africa: Losing it or Ruling it being incidents and experiences in Bechuanaland, Cape Colony, and England'' by John Mackenzie 1887. [https://archive.org/details/australafricalos01mack Vol. I], [https://archive.org/details/australafricalos02mack Vol. II] Archive.org, Ministry of Culture/National Library of India Collection.
*[https://archive.org/details/b2129771x/page/n10 ''South Africa as a health resort : with especial reference to the effects of the climate on consumptive invalids : and full particulars of the various localities most suitable for their treatment : and also of the best means of reaching the places indicated''] by Arthur Fuller 2nd edition 1889 Archive.org
*''Geslacht-Register der Oude Kaapsche Familien'' by Christoffel Coetzee De Villiers c 1894 Archive.org (in Dutch/Africaans). Gives details/trees for families who settled in the Cape area of South Africa.
