Outeniqua

The Outeniqua Mountains run parallel to the southern Cape coast, between the inland valleys and the forests facing the sea. They take their name from the Outeniqua, a Khoekhoe people who lived in this region. In 1689 the traveller Isaac Schrijver recorded meeting the Outeniqua during an expedition east from the Cape settlement. By 1711 the colonial authorities had received reports of extensive forests in Outeniqualand; later in the century a woodcutter's post was established near George to supply timber to the Cape.