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go ; nor is it possible for those who have 
not personally witnessed these tribes, to ima- 
gine the extent of barbarism evinced by them; 
or the small degree of intellect which they pos- 
sess — barely distinguishing them from the npper 
classes of the brute creation. 
It is humiliating, in the extreme, to depict 
them ; for though, doubtless, isolated cases of 
cruelty have been exercised to them by the old 
Dutch Boers, in days gone by; still it would be 
unjust to make these the sole reason for their 
present degradation, or keep the fact out of 
tficw that their modes of life now are voluntary. 
They will not receive kindness ; or, if they do, they 
only make a return by treachery, robbery, and 
even murder, if the opportunity occurs to them 
to commit it. No presents of cattle or corn ; 
no inducements to locate and settle (all of 
which have been repeatedly tried by those 
Boers who live nearest to them,) can induce 
them to relinquish their wild marauding life, 
or approach towards civilization. And hence, 
sad as it is to contemplate, the only securities 
to civilization, when brought into contact with 
such beings, are coercive measures, which, in 
self-defence, the Boers are compelled to adopt, 
and, unhappily, with no more mercy and leni- 
ency, at the present time, than of old; but 
such being the case ? now that conciliatory and 
