70 TRAVELS IN 
Such are the means for attacking or de-j 
fending ufed by fome of the favage nations 
pf Africa. They may perhaps incite the in- 
dignation of an European, and induce him 
to tax thefe people with barbarity 5 but it 
muft be remembered that the Europeans, be- 
fore they employed that terrible thunder 
which in a moment caufes fo much devafta- 
tion and ruin, had no other arms but thofe 
made of fteel, and knew alfo the method of 
fending a double death to the enemy. 
The Hottentots have not the leaft notion 
pf the elements of agricuhure they neither 
fow nor plant, nor do they ever reap any 
crop. All that Kolben has faid refpedling 
their manner of cultivating the earth, of ga- 
thering in their grain, and of churning their 
butter, concerns the planters only, and the 
Hottentots in their fervice. The favages 
drink their milk as nature gives it ; and if 
they conceived a tafie for agriculture, to- 
bacco and the vine would undoubtedly be 
the principal objefts of their attention : for 
fmoking and drinking are their ruling plea- 
fures ; and all, whether old or young, mar- 
ried or unmarried, arc much addided to 
both. 
Whea 
