. Narrative of the expedition of an American squadron to the China seas and Japan. ^i O ^^%l^-/4/^^Vil>#^^ HOTTENTOTS — CAFFRES — FINGOES. 125 ernment, and wandered about with their flocks and herds, taking with themtheir moveable huts, constructed of boughs and poles, which were conveyedfrom pasture to pasture on the backs of oxen. Their tribes, however, havebeen mostly exterminated by the cruelty of the Europeans, although awretched remnant have survived, and live as miserable outcasts in the fast-nesses of the desert and the forest, and are known as Bushmen. They arestill savage in chara
. Narrative of the expedition of an American squadron to the China seas and Japan. ^i O ^^%l^-/4/^^Vil>#^^ HOTTENTOTS — CAFFRES — FINGOES. 125 ernment, and wandered about with their flocks and herds, taking with themtheir moveable huts, constructed of boughs and poles, which were conveyedfrom pasture to pasture on the backs of oxen. Their tribes, however, havebeen mostly exterminated by the cruelty of the Europeans, although awretched remnant have survived, and live as miserable outcasts in the fast-nesses of the desert and the forest, and are known as Bushmen. They arestill savage in character, and disgusting in their persons and habits, havingreceived but little benefit from the civilization of their white conquerors,who have always pursued them with a cruel wantonness, though we, as Amer-icans, remarks Commodore Perry, have no right to rail at other nationsfor the wrong they have inflicted upon the aborigines of countries seizedupon by them, for, though hardly equal to the English in the disgustinghypocrisy with which they excuse their acts, we are not far
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