Thomas Pringle was born in January 5, 1789, in Blaiklaw, Roxburghshire, South Africa. He and studied at Kelso and afterwards, in 1805, at Edinburgh University. He became Commissioner of the Public Records of Scotland, and co-editor of The Edinburgh Monthly Magazine and Constable's Magazine, in 1817. He was married to Margaret Brown. In 1819 he published his first book of poems, The Autumnal Excursion.
By 1824 he had become co-editor of the South African Commercial Advertiser and had opened a school. Two years later he left South Africa for London, where he did literary work and served as Secretary to the Anti-Slavery Society until his death on December 5, 1834.
Pringle is the author of The Bushman.
These lines suggest that:
D.) His lifestyle enables him to survive in situations that would devastate other cultures.
<u>Bushmen are known for living in the extremist conditions of the Kalahari desert, where other African tribes would die, they thrive.</u>
