settle in the Cape peninsula, hunter-gatherers and pastoralists were still in
sole occupation of the western part of Southern Africa. In the eastern part,
the mixed farming way of life was overwhelmingly dominant
with the
exception of small pockets of unassimilated hunter-gatherers in the moun-
tain escarpment, especially inthe Drakensberg range, where they survived
to nearly the end of the nineteenth century. In between, where the rainfall
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