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The report has convinced management of the East Indian company, and in 1651 she makes decision to create the trading station on cape of Kind Hope, having equipped with that end in view expedition from three ships. By the commandant of the future fort the 32-year-old medical assistant who has become subsequently by the visible official of colonial administration has been appointed JAn van Ribek. When the ships van Ribeka on April, 7th, 1652 (this day in the modern republic of South Africa is considered an official holiday) have thrown an anchor in the Table bay, before seamen the fine not investigated earth has opened. Â"Bulls in this country large, fat and very obedient. On the largest the black native sets up the big saddle from a reed on which puts something like palankina, and exploits themÂ", - wrote van Ribek home.
However, it were not absolutely "black" natives, they had more likely a yellowy-brown skin, were small growth, differed a fragile constitution.
Lived in those edges and nomad tribes of the hunters who were engaged also in collecting of fruits and korenev. People of these tribes too were undersized, with a yellowish skin. In the social development they remained at Stone Age level. It is curious, that when they almost have been completely exterminated - the price for trust to colonizers-Dutches, - in their caves have found the drawings surprisingly similar to prehistoric petroglyphic painting, found out once in the north of Spain.
Cattlemen unlike the described tribes conducted a settled way of life. In their settlements put by a ring it is close to each other wattled huts formed a courtyard where the cattle contained.
Names to these people of the South of Africa of a distance the Dutch seamen, and even long before arrival here people van Ribeka. Nomads, that had no constant dwellings and spent the night usually on branches of trees and bushes or built time tents of branches and a grass, have been named bushmenami, that in transfer means Â"people of bushesÂ".
Gottentotami Dutches have nicknamed hunters and cattlemen, simulating their abrupt speech. And their settlements of a steel nazyvatsja kraaljami. These words have strongly entered into many languages of the world.
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