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and evil, as men are everywhere else 1 ." He goes on to 

 speak of the rich being kind to the poor in expectation of 

 services ; and of the sick poor being left to starve, and then 

 to lie unburied. 



In Mr Moffat's book there are more terrible 

 Their cruelty . 

 and waut of pictures or native cruelty than in that of Dr 

 natural affec- Livingstone. 



In a battle between the Mantatees and the 

 Bechuanas, witnessed by Mr Moffat, he tells us of the 

 wounded warriors, and the women and children, of the 

 former tribe, being killed by the men of the latter, in cold 

 blood. On the one hand he saw the living babe in the arms 

 of its dead mother, or the dead infant in those of its living 

 mother: and, on the other hand, he beheld the mutilation 

 of captives, together with mothers and children rolled in 

 blood 2 ! 



The following is a picture of Batlapi cruelty, practised 

 against their Mantatee invaders: "The wounded enemy 

 they baited with their stones, clubs, and spears, accom- 

 panied with yellings and countenances indicative of fiendish 

 joy. The hapless women found no quarter, especially if 

 they possessed anything like ornaments to tempt the cupi- 

 dity of their plunderers. A few copper rings round the 

 neck, from which it was difficult to take them, was the 

 signal for the already uplifted battle-axe to sever the head 

 from the trunk, or the arm from the body, when the plun- 

 derer would grasp with a smile his bleeding trophies. 

 Others, in order to be able to return home with the triumph 

 of victors, would pursue the screaming boy or girl, and not 

 satisfied with severing a limb from the human frame, would 

 exhibit their contempt for the victims of their cruel revenge, 

 by seizing the head, and hurling it from them, or kicking it 

 to a distance 3 ." 



1 Travels, p. 510. 2 Missionary Labours, &c. p. 361, &c. 



3 Ibid. p. 369. 



