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are ornamented, upon occasion when they are rich 

 enough, with beads, bits of metal, &c. 



They are said to be wantonly cruel and destruc- 

 tive in their predatory excursions, destroying such 

 cattle as they cannot get away, and frequently mur- 

 dering the Hottentot herdsmen. 



Perhaps, however, many of the enormities they 

 commit, both on the Hottentots and Caffres, are 

 rather the result of retaliation and revenge, than the 

 effects of the unexcited impulses of savage ferocity ; 

 for it appears that the latter people in particular, 

 pursue them in their woods and hiding-places, and 

 destroy them wherever they are to be found, like 

 wild beasts. Such a desultory mode of warfare 

 might perhaps be warrantable even among those 

 nations who butcher each other in the most refined 

 manner, when the nature and practices of the enemy 

 are adverted to: unorganized by any regular system, 

 it is only in the dark recess, the obscure cave, and 

 the sheltering underwood whence they shoot their 

 poisoned arrows, that they are to be met with indi- 

 vidually and opposed. It is therefore more than 

 probable that the poor hunted Bushmen will never 

 advance in the intellectual scale till the prejudices 

 of his fellow men against him have melted away 

 before the beams of charity and reason. 



Cuvier observes of the woman before mentioned, 

 that her movements were marked by a quickness 

 and capriciousness which reminded one of those of 

 the monkey tribe. She had moreover a habit of 

 pushing out her lips in the manner of the orang- 



