TRAVELS IN 
they imagine themfelves fuperior to them i 
though they are defpifed at the Cape, where 
it is not even ufual to baptife them. The 
charafler of thefe people partakes more of 
that of an European than of a Hottentot ; 
they have more courage and more aSivity 
than the latter, and labour never difcourages 
them ; but, being more impetuous and more 
enterprifing, they are alfo more mifchievous 
and wicked. It is not uncommon to fee 
them aflaffinate their mafters, to whom they 
have fold their fervices and it is they, ra- 
ther than the negroes, who appear foremoft 
In devifing adls of treachery, which they 
commit every day in the plantations. The 
Hottentot, too mild, and too void of paffions, 
to enter into atrocious enterprifes, would 
not have fufficient ftrength to carry them 
into execution : the moft cruel treatment is 
not even capable of infpiring him with an 
idea of this kind. In a word, the planter 
who has Hottentots oaly in his fervice may 
fleep foundly^ affured that he will foon be in- 
formed of danger, fhould any threaten him^ 
Thefe bajlard whites are robuft and well 
fn^de; their fkin is of a clearer yellow than 
that 
