A F R I C A. iji 
Hot have affigned a fquare inftead of a round 
form to the huts of the CaiFres whom he 
never vifited. I muft allow, in favour of this 
learned man, that his candour and probity 
made him confider every thing as inconteft- 
able, the moment it was certified to him by 
any of the planters. John Kock, particu- 
larly, whom he calls the moft accurate and 
judicious obferver he ever knew, undoubt- 
edly never expected that exceffive praife 
which he has laviflied upon him, while the 
inhabitants of the whole town and colony 
refute them, and do not hefitate, on ac- 
count of thefe errors only, to rank next to 
Kolben's a book v/hich would have been 
highly ufeful, had the author confined him- 
felf to fuch objedls as wxre familiar to him* 
I pay refpeil to truth when I find it in 
Dr. Sparmann; and I lay to the charge of 
his obferver thofe falfehoods which difguft 
me : but when either the one or the other 
alTures us " that he never faw the favages 
" wipe or clean their Ikin ; that, to fcour 
" their hands, they rub them with cow 
" dung ^ that they rub alfo their arms with 
it, as far as the flioulders ; that this unc- 
tiQUf which is not neceflary, is intended 
K 2 merely 
