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European soldiers and soldiers of the Cape Corps. He was appointed the Albany district surgeon in 1822 and started the first free dispensary for indigent patients in South Africa. He led a scientific expedition into the interior and was able to indulge in his
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was published in 1836. Except for two short reports that appeared after his return to Cape Town from the interior in 1836, no detailed account of his travels was ever published. Smith's diary, however, was later edited by
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Illustrations of the zoology of South Africa. Mammalia. (Aves. Reptilia. Pisces. Invertebratæ). [5 pt. Pt. 5 has an additional title-leaf reading
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interests of natural history and anthropology. On several occasions, he was sent by governors on confidential missions to visit Bantu tribes beyond the frontier, such as his trip to
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touched at the Cape in May 1836, and showed him slate rock formations. He also gave Darwin some rock samples he had collected the year before. These are now held by the
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in 1844 and turn it into a Crown colony. Similarly in 1833 the reports of traders from North of the
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The Diary of Dr. Andrew Smith, Director of the 'Expedition for
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597:Mammalia
595:Part 5,
404:See also
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