the country of the Caffers, or Hottentots, in the most southerly part of Africa, lying in the form of a crescent about the inland country of Monomotapa, between 35° S. lat. and the tropic of Capricorn; and bounded on the east, south, and west, by the Indian and Atlantic oceans.

Most of the sea-coasts of this country are subject to the Dutch, who have built a fort near the most southern promontory, called the Cape of Good-Hope.