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To: marcos who wrote (156810)1/22/2005 6:37:31 PM
From: neolib  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
one thing that sticks in the mind, is the assertion that when van Riebeeck and company started up their colony there were no natives around at all, and little to no evidence that they ever had been, no sign of houses or cultivation or clearings etc, according to the dutch, who wrote a lot down at the time, and would have had no reason to lie about it, as wiping out natives was then considered routine

The Bushmen and Hottentots were both nomadic or semi-nomadic, so not much in the way of huts and tilled fields. Smallpox did a good job as well, starting from before the Dutch. To Europeans, most of the undeveloped world would have looked under populated I guess in the late 1600's.
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