290 INCENTIVE TO WORK. [1698. 



give tliem Sea-water to drink, and put Tobacco in their 

 Mouths, believing these two things, in conjunction with 

 what was before done, would render them so robust and 

 supple, that they might overtake a Eoe-Buck in his full 

 Course. 



For all this nastiness they are made use of by the 

 Christians of these Parts, and so for a bit of Bread or 

 Tobacco, may be made to work a whole Day. But then 

 care must be taken of two things. First, rather to promise 

 than threaten them, and by no means to abridge their 

 Liberty^; and Secondly, not to give them any thing to eat 

 till after their Work is done, this same Liberty which they 

 are so fond of always enclining them to live at ease, and 

 Necessity being the only Spur that pushes them on to work. 



These vile Huts which I have before spoken of, are low 

 and almost round. They are compos'd of Earth, Branches, 



summer dress, holding a skirret-root iu one hand and the hind-quarter 

 of an antelope in the other. The leaf and fruit of a plant in the fore- 

 ground is adapted from the Banarner figured by Rochefort. {H'uf. Nat. 

 (Icf^ lies Antilles^ p. 225.) 



"In kindness and fidelity towards their Neighbors, they shame the 

 Dutch, and all the other Europeans, because whatsoever one hath, they 

 willingly and readily impart it to others, be it little or much." 



" The People which dwell about and near the Cape of Good Hope 

 are of a middle Stature, Slouch-body'd, and uncomely of Person ; of a 

 Tawny colour, like MuUetto's. . . . The Ilairof their Heads in general 



resembles Lambs Wool, short and Curl'd They pull all the 



Hair out of their Chins, and daub their Faces with Black, and then 

 anoint them with Grease and Tallow, and thereby seem as if they never 

 were washed. Those which dwell close by the Cape on the Shore, and 

 come to the Netherlanders Ships, presently run to the Cook, Kettle, or 

 Pottage-pot, and anoint themselves with the Soot thereof, which they 

 esteem a Princely Ornament." (Ogilby, /. c, pp. 689, 590.) 



1 In orig. : " car ils ne soufriroient, disent-ils, jamais ces sortes de 

 subordinations iuutiles qui au lieu de servir ;\ maintenir la justice & la 

 paix dans la Societe (ca qui est le vrai & ancien but de ceux qui ont 

 etabli les Dignitez & les Charges jDuWiques) y autorisent en quelque 

 mani^re la tyraanie & le brigandage," omitted by translator. 



