HOTTENTOT RACE. 



A Bushman. 



A Bushman, armed for an Expedition. 



The Bushmen are the remains of Hottentot tribes, and consist of wandering hordes who were once in 

 the pastoral state, but have again become hunters, having been robbed of their flocks and herds by the 

 colonists, and driven to_ remote districts for safety. They are now wholly destitute of flocks, living in 

 constant alarm in inaccessible rocks, and changing their residence frequently, lest their haunts should be 

 discovered. A hole dug in the earth, and covered with a mat raised on a couple of sticks, often forms 

 their habitation. The parties who wander over immense tracts of country are unconnected with each other; 

 even oppression has not united them, but a long course of cruelty has exasperated them against all man- 

 kind. It has been said that they have an uncontrollable aversion to civilization; and yet, by those who 

 have studied their character, they are represented as by no means deficient in intellect ; bold and skilful 

 hunters; not indisposed for instruction ; susceptible of kindness; grateful; faithful in the execution of a 

 trust committed to them. Not only did the Bushmen feel the savage system of commandoes, but they 

 were murdered by the Cape-Dutch with the utmost coolness. The Bushmen missions are represented as 

 having been attended with some valuable results. Some of these natives of the wild desert had begun to 

 handle the spade and the sickle, to raise Indian corn, pumpkins, water-melons, beans, &c. The mission by 

 which these changes had been effected was put down by Colonial Government in 1816. The Bushmen 

 maintained their position for two or three years ; but oppression at length drove them into the deserts, and 

 the country was given to the boors. 



The Griquas are a race of mulattoes, whose ancestors were the offspring of colonists by Hottentot 

 females. Treated as an inferior class by those of kindred race, and prevented from acquiring property, 

 they gradually established themselves amongst the tribes beyond the Great Fish River, where their num. 

 bers were augmented by refugees and intermarriages with the females of surrounding tribes. Forty years 

 ago they subsisted by plunder and the chase, but the missionaries have met with much success in their 

 attempts to improve them. The country they inhabit is not well adapted to agriculture. 

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