ABSTRACT
Francis Galton was the first European to write about travels that skirted both to the south and the west the area that is defined as the "traditional" stronghold of those people labeled as "Bushmen." Fresh from England, Galton could not help but be aware of the bourgeois interest in Bushmen, as some of the most fashionable shows in England between 1846 and 1850 had consisted of various troupes of South African Bushmen. Thus Galton's colleague Charles J. A. Andersson reported meeting South African Coloreds who had trekked across the Kalahari with forty-seven wagons to hunt, and both Galton and Andersson found that game had retreated to beyond longitude 20° as a result of large-scale hunting with firearms. Game went into a marked decline with the introduction of firearms, which signaled the penetration of the capitalist world system. In sum, hunting and pastoralism are flexible production strategies: There is no lineal trajectory from the one to the other.
