. Travels and adventures in southern Africa. ptions, though infinitely fewerthan in Barrows time ; but the very worst and wildest of the back-countryboors, (and I have lived for years in their neighbourhood, and lodged ahundred times in their houses and hovels,) though they might occasionallyattempt to overreach, would never wantonly injure, much less rob or rifle atraveller. Of the long oppressed and neglected Hottentots, I have triedand trusted numbers in the most unlimited manner, and never knew thempurloin or make free with any thing,—with the exception, perhaps, of alittle brandy or tobac
. Travels and adventures in southern Africa. ptions, though infinitely fewerthan in Barrows time ; but the very worst and wildest of the back-countryboors, (and I have lived for years in their neighbourhood, and lodged ahundred times in their houses and hovels,) though they might occasionallyattempt to overreach, would never wantonly injure, much less rob or rifle atraveller. Of the long oppressed and neglected Hottentots, I have triedand trusted numbers in the most unlimited manner, and never knew thempurloin or make free with any thing,—with the exception, perhaps, of alittle brandy or tobacco at a time of temptation ; —and I never saw them dis-play any spirit of revenge, and seldom even of resistance, under the mostsevere and contumelious treatment. As for the slaves, they are (and necessa-rily must be) unhappy, debased, and dangerous in all countries ; but herethey form but a moderate part of the population, and are fortimately notpermitted to degrade the English settlements. 3 c 3 380 AKD GENERAL CHAPTER IV. RETROSPECTIVE AND GENERAL REMARKS. — NOTICES OF SOME OF THEPLATES AND VIGNETTES. — CHARACTER OF THE INHABITANTS OFCAPE TOWN AND ITS VICINITY.—THE PRESS.—COMMISSIONERS OFINQUIRY.—^WINE-TRADE. In the present work I have endeavoured not to fatigue the patience ofthe reader, by leading him over the beaten tracks of former travellers, andparticularly of those of more recent date ; and when I have been compelledto follow in the same paths, it has been .ny aim to select for him those pointsof view, which, from lapse of time, i ?• other causes, present a contrast to theaspect they wore when seen by my precursors. I liave studied rather to sup-ply what they have omitted, than affected, by blending their materials withmy o\\ n, to give such an elaborate account of the Colony, as would requirethe united talents of the naturalist, the historian, and the statesman. I RETROSPECTIVE AND GENERAL REMARKS. 381 may, therefore, be excus
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