AN ACCOUNT OF TRAVELS INTO THE INTERIOR OF SOUTHERN AFRICA

To which is annexed a description of the present state, populations, and produce of that extensive colony; with a map constructed entirely from actual observations made in the course of the travels.

First Edition: 2 volumes: I. viii, 419, (i errata). II. xi, (i errata), 452 pages, folding aquatint plate with sepia tint of 'Entrance to Cape Town from Green Point' as frontispiece in volume 2, large folding map in volume 1 with the travels indicated in red, 8 smaller maps - two partly coloured and folding - one the Military Plan of the Cape Peninsula, old full mottled calf with dark red leather title labels on the spines, some worming on the endpapers, foxing and browning in the first half of volume I but the remainder of the contents, the frontispiece and maps are in good condition, staining on the page edges, a fair copy only.

Mendelssohn (S.) South African Bibliography, volume 1, pages 87/88. ‘Barrow was attached to the staff of the Earl of Macartney, one of the governors of the Cape Colony during the first occupation by the British. Barrow accompanied an expedition from Cape Town to Graaff-Reinet, and another to Namaqualand, and he gives an excellent description of the country traversed, particularly with regard to the botany and zoology of these regions. He provides significant evidence of the alleged brutality of the Boers to their slaves and Hottentot servants, and there is a description of the characteristics, habits, and customs of the various native races.’