Johannes Bruyns

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About Johannes Bruyns

  • Hazel Crampton describes Jan Bruyns and his cousins, Daniel, Hendrik and Johannes de Vries, as having participated in Hendrik Hop's 1761 expedition to the Gariep/Orange River to "find out if the people of the interior used giraffe's as beasts of burden, [and] 'to discover an African or European people who had long hair and beards and who were respectably dressed.'" (Crampton, Hazel (2014) The Side Of The Sun At Noon. South Africa: Jacana pp128-134).