NATURAL HISTORY. 



sufficiently unhappy in being reduced to a state o 

 slavery; in being obliged to work without reaping the 

 smallest fruits of their labour ? To cro\v;i their wretch- 

 edness, must they be abused, buflV'led, treated like 

 brutes? Humanity revolts nt the i - I of ;i COl -'"cr, 

 which nothing but the thirst of goM could C.VC.T luive 

 introduced, and of which, every ihr* viH proa-jce an 

 aggravated repetition, till an enlLihU^jd legislature 

 shall put an end to a traffic which c.\ ---faces human 

 nature. 



Mr Kolbe, though he has given so minute a descrip- 

 tion of the Hottentots, is strongly of opinion, however, 

 that they are negroes. Like that of the latter, he as- 

 sures us, their hair is short, black, frizzled, and woolly; 

 nor in a single instance did he ever observe it long. 



Though of all the Hottentots the nose is very flat, 

 and very broad, yet it would not be of that form, did 

 not their mothers, considering a prominent nose as a 

 deformity, crush it presently after their birth. Their 

 lips are also thick, and their upper lip is particularly 

 so: their teeth are very white; their eye-brows are 

 thick ; their head is large ; their body is meagre ; and 

 their limbs are slender. They seldom live above forty 

 years ; and of this short duration of life, the causes, 

 no doubt, are, their residing continually in the midst 

 of filth, as also their living upon meat that is tainted, 

 of which indeed their nourishment chiefly consists. I 

 might dwell longer upon the description of this nasty 

 people ; but as most travellers have already given 

 very accurate accounts of them, it might be thought 

 unnecessary in this place. One fact, however, related 

 by Tavernier, I ought not to pass in silence. The 

 Dutch, he says, once took a Hottentot girl, soon after 

 bc-r birth ; and, after bringing her up amoJig them- 



