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showing their contempt of law, when they can do it with 
impunity. 
* Under such circumstances, it appears to me that the 
scheme of instructing the Hottentots is radically wrong, 
unless it be accompanied with such an arrangement as shall 
place them permanently beyond the power of their masters. 
Situated as they are at present, its only effect will be to add 
to the other bad passions, of which they have been so long 
the victims, that of envy at their superior attainments. An 
instructed and intelligent race of people, serving another 
race which is neither intelligent nor instructed, would be a 
monster in human society, of which there is no example on 
record. To instruct the menial, without first instructing the 
master, can serve no useful purpose, If this devoted race is 
to experience any alleviation of its misery during the future 
part of its progress to extinction, it must be effected by in- 
fusing the principles of humanity into the bosoms of those 
who hold its destiny in their hands. 
** It is nonsense to dissemble. We may safely prognosticate 
the speedy annihilation of the Hottentot race, by the natural 
progress of society, and the rapid increase of a population, with 
which it can neither mix nor amalgamate. Who is there, 
indeed, that cannot discern from afar the fate of America 
impending over the whole of this continent? When the 
energy, the industry, and the genius of Europe are pitted 
against the ignorance, the indolence, and the apathy of 
Africa, the final issue, though it may be distant, cannot be 
doubtful: and if such a revolution could be effected in the 
progress of time, and without those wars and convulsions that 
usually attend the collision of nations, is it not —* a consum- 
mation devoutly to be wished ?’ 
* We left Bavians Kloof at four o'clock next morning; 
and retraced our way to De Tait's, where, having rested till 
one o'clock, we mounted again, and proceeded to join our 
party at the Branaa Valley, where we arrived in the evening, 
after a ride of fifty-one miles. This valley, or rather plain, 
is a tract of marshy ground, three miles in extent, overgrown 
with reeds, rushes, and other aquatic plants, and harbouring 
