MEMOIR OF LE VAILLANT. 2j 



manners are liberal, generous, and humane ; and lie 

 never fails to speak with gratitude of the services 

 he received, or the simple attentions he experienced, 

 even in the kraals of the Hottentots. 



Certain travellers, among others Barrow and 

 Lichtenstein, who visited the same regions at -a 

 subsequent period, have called in question some of 

 his statements, especially as having mentioned the 

 names of tribes that are no longer found to exist. 

 But it is quite clear that both parties may be cor- 

 rect. A few years would be sufficient to work a 

 considerable change in the state of society in a 

 country inhabited by hordes of wandering savages ; 

 and it is neither impossible nor improbable that 

 between the year 1782, of which M. Le Yaillant 

 speaks, and 1797? the period referred to by Mr. 

 Barrow, some of these migratory tribes might have 

 been dispersed, and their very names entirely for- 

 gotten. 



In other respects, his relations as to the fierce and 

 implacable hatred between the colonists and the 

 natives, are corroborated by future travellers. The 

 Rev. John Campbell of Kingsland Chapel, near 

 London, who twice visited South Africa as a mis- 

 sionary, mentions that he saw, near the Raven 

 mountains, a female who recollected perfectly of M. 

 Le Vai&ant nanng sojourned in her house. Camp- 

 bell says, indeed, that our traveller sometimes mixes 

 too much of the romantic in his narratives ; but he 

 admits that he has described with great accuracy 

 the manners and habits of the Hottentots. Mon- 



