Cape of Good Hope: Message from His Excellency the Governor, with enclosures, relative to affairs in the north-western districts of the colony

Cape of Good Hope: Message from His Excellency the Governor, with enclosures, relative to affairs in the north-western districts of the colony

Publications and reports

Louis Anthing's 1863 report on a matter previously brought to Attorney-General William Porter's attention, concerning 'large numbers of [...] Bushmen living in the direction of the Orange River [...] with their wives and families [...] cruelly destroyed by the settlers of different races, who had made their way into the country.' Anthing's findings came before the Cape Parliament's House of Assembly when Philip Edmond Wodehouse was Governor of the Cape Colony (1861-1870).

Ink on paper

16 June 1863

A complete copy of civil commissioner and resident magistrate Louis Anthing's 1863 report to the Cape Parliament, printed in black ink on foolscap sheets with pencil annotations in the top margin of each page.

Louis Anthing (resident magistrate and civil commissioner of Namaqualand), Governor PE Wodehouse, colonial secretary (Rawson W Rawson), William Porter (attorney-general), Bushmen (their cruel destruction by settlers), settlers (of different races), Cape Colony (its northwestern districts)