the country of the Caffires or Hottentots, in the most southerly parts of Africa lying in the form of a crescent about the inland country of Monomopata, between 35° south latitude and the tropic of Capricorn: and bounded on the east, south, and west, by the Indian and Atlantic oceans. See Hottentots.

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.