AFRICA. 115 
I have already faid that too much inter- 
courfe with the whites has ruined and cor- 
rupted their manners ; and of the truth of 
this affertion the Hottentots of the colonies 
are a ftriking example : thofe of the defart, 
being nothing different in nature, will per- 
haps yield one day to fedudion, (hoiild it hap- 
pen to reach them, and w^ill fujffer themfelves 
to be led away by the force of example. 
When Dr. Forfter, in his Voyage round the 
World with Captain Cook,, informs us thaC 
the women of Eafter Ifles were lafcivious 
courtezans J he does not conceal from us that 
the failors gave themfelves up openly and 
without fhame to the moft infamous debau-* 
chery with them; but we ought to add, with-- 
out any hefitation, that the women of favage 
nations, once vifited by corrupted Europeans^ 
and too well acquainted with their perverfe 
inclinations, proftitute themfelves to all thofc 
who choofe to enjoy them, and gratify their 
tafte, doubtlefs from a dread of the barbarous 
cruelties which the w4:iites are capable of 
committing. 
In all places wherever a defire of informa- 
tion induced me to enter upon this fubjedl 
with fuch women as I met in the courfe of 
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