348 AFRICAN NATURE NOTES CHAP, xx 



never in all their lives had they given any native 

 the slightest reason to be grateful to them. 



The Bushmen are the only really primitive race 

 in South Africa, but, rude and uncultured though 

 they may be, I cannot look upon them as degraded 

 savages, but rather as a race whose development 

 was arrested long ago, by the circumstances of their 

 surroundings ; but whose members, nevertheless, 

 are beings whose human hearts can be touched and 

 whose sympathies can be aroused by the kindness 

 of another human being, however widely separated 

 the latter may be from themselves in race and 

 degree of culture. Well and truly has it been said 

 by one of England's most illustrious sons, "One 

 touch of nature makes the whole world kin." 



