Cattle-breeding is carried on te some extent

especially along the coasts and in the BE. and N. districts. There are no manufactures of any im- -portance. The European inhabitants consist in part of English, Scottish, and Irish settlers and their descendants, but the majority are of Dutch origin, while there are also a considerable number of German origin. The colored people are chiefly Hottentots, Kaffirs, Bechuanas, Basutos, Griquas, Malays, and a mixed race, the offspring of black women and white fathers. The constitution which was formed under the acts pa ed in the years 1853, 1865, and 1872 vested the executive in the governor and an executive council composed of office-holders appointed by the crown. The legislative power was in the hands of a legislative council of 23 members, elected for seven years, and a house or a embly of 95 members, elected for a term of five years, The Dutch, who had early fixed upon the Cape as a watering-place for their ships, first colonized it under Van Riebeek, in 1652. It was captured by the British in 1795, restored at the peace of Amiens (1802), and again taken in 1806. From this time it has remained in the po e ion of Great Britain, to which it was formally a igned in 1815, along with Dutch Guiana. Subsequently the area of the colony was gradually enlarged by the annexation of surrounding districts.