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ing and thofe blows : but thefe movements^ 
which the Do£lor confiders as the convulfive 
agitations of defpair, were only a method of 
fupplying the want of fplrituous liquors, 
which people have recourfe to in Europe, to 
clear up a very difficult doubt, and which 
the Hottentots are deprived of. The violent 
agitation, employed by the two old women, 
is an efficacious remedy that produces good 
efFedts,finceDr.Sparmann adds, that it revived 
the patient. 
The fmall poy^ which has fo often ra- 
vaged the kraals of the Hottentots in the co- 
lonies, never made its appearance but once 
among the Gonaquas. As this difeafe then 
fwept away more than the half of their people, 
they dread it fo much, and it infpires them 
with fo great horror, that, on the firft news 
of its breaking out in the colonies, they 
abandon every thing, and fly to the bofom 
of the defarts. Wretched then is the con- 
dition of thofe whom they fiifpe£t to be in- 
feded. Convinced that there is no remedy 
for this dreadful plague, whether it be a pa- 
rent, a wife, or a child, that is fick, the voice 
of nature appears to become filent. They 
abandon 
