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References
- ↑ "David Hume (66), explorer and big-game hunter, dies in Grahamstown. He came to the Cape with Benjamin Moodie's Scotch settlers". South African History Online. 31 January 2012. Archived from the original on 6 June 2017. Retrieved 8 October 2016.
- Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa. Vol. 5. Cape Town: Nasou. 1972. p. 467. ISBN 0-625-00321-7.
