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poor class, not possessing a slave, or the younger branches 
of richer families, who take charge of their flocks, while their 
elders and slaves remain at home to cultivate their places, 
very few slaves comparatively being used as herdsmen. 
As regards the other charge, instead of the Boors 
oppressing the Griquas or Bastards, their arrival in the 
country of the latter is hailed by the generality of those 
people as an event fraught with good fortune to them ; for 
having large places, and little or no cattle to graze there: 
and as “they plough not, neither do they sow,” they take 
care to make the Boors pay a good price for every privilege 
they enjoy the moment they cross their boundaries. 
That there may be single instances of the Boors mal- 
treating the Griquas I will readily allow, but the majority of 
them treat them with kindness and humanity, being often 
the means of saving whole families from starvation, when the 
indolent parents are too lazy to exert. themselves on behalf 
of their own offspring. That there are instances of indus- 
try among those people I am also ready to admit, but they 
are “ few and far between ;” the great body of them loitering 
their time away in their filthy hovels, which swarm with 
vermin, living in the most abject state of squalid poverty, 
supported solely by the exertions of a few wretched Bechua- 
nas or Bushmen, who drag out a most miserable existence 
under the most intolerable slavery, in procuring for the sub- 
sistence of their indolent and supercilious masters roots, 
locusts, or honey. This is a species of slavery that the 
abolitionists are probably unacquainted with, and exists to 
a considerable degree through all the Griqua country. 
‘They obtain them when out on hunting, or on predatory 
excursions in the interior, and I have more than once been 
eye-witness to the cruel and degrading manner in which 
they treat the unfortunate Bechuanas. 
As my Indian friends were bound to Lattakoo by the 
