'loo TRAVELS IN 
Of all the people whom I ever faw, the 
Gonaquas are the only nation that can be 
confidered as free ; but they will perhaps be 
foon obliged to remove to a greater diftance, 
or receive laws from the Dutch government. 
All the land to the eaft being in general good, 
the planters endeavour to extend their pof- 
feffionsin that quarter as much as they can; 
and their avarice doubtlefs will fome day 
fucceed. Mifery muft then be the portion 
of thefe happy and peaceable people ; and 
every trace of their liberty will be deftroyed 
by maflacres and invafions. Thus have all 
thofe hordes mentioned by old authors been 
treated ; and, by being often difmembered 
and weakened, they are now reduced to a 
ftate of abfolute dependance on the Dutch. 
The exiftence of the Hottentots, their names, 
and their hiftory, will therefore in tim^ be 
accounted fabulous; unlefs fome traveller, 
who may pofibfs curiofity enough to induce 
him to difcover their remains, (hould have 
the courage to penetrate into the remote 
defarts inhabited by the great Nimiquas, 
where rocks more and more hardened by 
time, and old and barren mountains, do not 
produce 
