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they are fearful of approaching the haunts of this race ; and that from 

 feme or otlier of thefe caulcs, none have been obtained for infpec- 

 tion in Europe, except very young ones, who could not cfcape their 

 purfucrs. 



So far as they are hitherto difcovered to Europeans, it appears that 

 they herd in a kind of fociety together, and build liuts fuitable to their 

 climate ; that, ^vhen tamed and properly infti'ucted, they have been 

 brouoht to perform a variety of menial domeftic fervices ; that they 

 conceive a paffion for the Negroe women, and hence mull; be fup- 

 pofed to covet their embraces from a natural impulfe of defire, fuch 

 as inclines one animal towards another of the fame fpecies, or which 

 has a conformity in the organs of generation. 



The young ones exhibited in Europe havefhewn a quicknefs of ap- 

 prehenfion, and facility of imitation, that we ihould admire very much 

 in children of the fame tender age. 



The conformation of their limbs denotes beyond all controverfy, 

 that they are deiVmcd to an ercft pofidon of body, and to move like 

 men. The ftrufture of their teeth, their organs of fecretion, digeftion, 

 &c. all the fame as the human, prove them entitled to fublift on 

 the fame aliments as man. The organs of generation being alike, 

 they propagate their fpecies, and their females luckle their young', in 

 the fame manner. 



Their dlfpofition fliews a great degree of focial feeling ; they feem 

 to have a fenfe of (hame, and a fhare of fenfibility, as may be inferred 

 from the preceding relations ; nay, fome trace of reafon appears in 

 that young one, which (according to Le Brofle) made figns expref- 

 iive of his idea that " bleeding in the arm had been remedial to 

 " his difoider." Nor mull we omit the expreffion of their grief by 

 Ihedding tears, and other paffions, by modes entirely refembling the 

 .human. Ludicrous as the opinion may feem, I do not think that an 

 oran-outang hulband would be any difhonour to an Hottentot female ; 

 for what are thefe Hottentots r — They are, fay the mofi: credible wri- 

 ters, a people certainly very ilupid, and very brutal. In many refpeds 

 they are more like beafls than men ; their complexion is dark, they are 

 fhort and thick-fet; their nofes flat, like thofe of a Dutch dog ; their 

 lips very thick and big ; their teeth exceedingly white, but very long, 

 and ill fet, fome of them flicking cut of their mouths like boaps 



tufks : 



