. Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning . W3 l. 680 GREAT RACES OE MANKIND. he is taken from the kraal, or village, toa remote situation and exposed to may even be a man of prominenceand wealth, but this does not protecthim from the common fate which bar-barous custom has prescribed. Old p
. Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning . W3 l. 680 GREAT RACES OE MANKIND. he is taken from the kraal, or village, toa remote situation and exposed to may even be a man of prominenceand wealth, but this does not protecthim from the common fate which bar-barous custom has prescribed. Old per-sons thus carried away into exposuresometimes die of starvation, but are fre-quently destroyed by wild beasts whichattack and devour them. Individual instances are authenticated I have come under foreign instruction haverelapsed at the first opportunity, return-ing not only to their own kind, but tothe barbarous customs which they hadformerly given up. Pritchard has transmitted the story ofa Hottentot boy, educated under theauspices of the governor, Pritchards ac-ATan der Stel, and brought fount of the re- * lapse of a Cape to a considerable staofe of Town in knowledge. He remained. KRAAL OF THE HOTTENTOTS.—Fi Naturkunde. stances of Hottentot improvement. in which Hottentots have shown a con-siderable measure of moral have learned not only to read andindividual in- write, but have acquired ameasure of facility in twoor three foreign have been taken abroad and havebeen seen of men from Liverpool to Ben-gal : but such work appears to be quiteevanescent. No fixedness has thus farbeen attained through the influence offoreign education and foreign religiousteaching. It has been noticed with sor-row that the best educated of those who with the Dutch of the Cape settlement,was employed in business, and sent onjourneys into India. Nevertheless, onhis return to the Cape of Good Hope hetore away his European clothing, dressedhimself in
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