AFRICA- 6:t 
imprefled on the heart of the Gonaqiias an 
invincible abhorrence of this infamous pro- 
ftitution- It fhocks thefe people fo much, 
that a hufband, acquainted with the flighted 
ad of infidelity in his fpoufe, may immedi- 
ately put her to death, without running the 
riik of being punifhed for it. 
It may be readily judged that this remark 
is liable to fome exceptions ; and the reader 
will recollefl: with what familiarity the firft 
free Hottentots I met mixed among mine : 
but, being nearer the colony, example is a 
very powerful feducer ; and I even confefs 
that it would be difHcult, among thefe fa- 
vages, for the conjugal knot to refill: the 
folicitations and coaxing of an European. 
A Hottentot woman, honoured by being 
overcome, looks upon her hufband after- 
wards with a kind of haughtinefs, and quits 
him with contempt. The latter, on his fide, 
foon becomes comforted, and fuffers himfelf 
to be eafily appeafed by trifling prefents : 
but even this refource is ufelefs; and, as I 
have already faid, in confequence of their 
primitive manners being corrupted, they are 
lefs fufceptible of jealoufy, and are far from 
experiencing its madnefs. 
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