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tot to expofe himfelf in public for the pur- 
pofe of exciting pity and procuring relief ; 
this is a forced method, but ufelefs in a 
country where every body is compaffionate. 
They have no idea of bleeding, nor of the 
advantage which we derive from it. I do 
not even believe that there is one perfon 
amongft them who would voluntarily fub- 
mit to this operation ; but, with regard to 
the Hottentots of the colonies, as they are 
accuftomed to the European manners, they 
have alfo received their difeafes and adopted 
their remedies. 
The operation performed by their phyfi- 
clans, of which the famous Kolben fpeaks, 
and the cuftom which he afcribes to the 
Hottentots of the defart, of confulting the 
entrails of fheep, fufpcnding the caul of the 
animal from the patient's neck, leaving it 
there to rot, and other tales of the like kind, 
were undoubtedly written for the vulgar, and 
are at beft calculated only to amufe the igno- 
rant. Where there is neither religion nor 
worfliip, there can be no fuperftition. It is 
flill lefs agreeable to truth, that in the horde 
thefe pretended phyficlans hold a rank fupe- 
rior to that of their priefls. To be more 
exadt. 
