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perlmcnt, and the indelible fears with which 
his whole body was covered. 
One anecdote of this nature is fufiBcient to 
juftlfy the implacable hatred which rages in 
the rankled breads of the CafFres; and which 
we may even fay that they bring into the 
world with them. Why, therefore, fhould 
we confider as the effeds of a difpofition 
naturally ferocious, thofe fudden and unex- 
peded attacks, which are only at bottom 
juft reprifals ? Nature has not been more 
a ftep-mother to the CafFres than to any 
other favage nation ; all equally revolt at in^ 
juftice and tyranny; and the calmeft and 
moii: peaceable beings that we know, the 
Caribs of the fouthern coafts of America, are 
transformed into furious lions, if any incon-^ 
fiderate invader only dares to attack them in 
their humble retreats. 
If the Caffres, when oppreffed by perfe^ 
cution, and continually plundered and ha- 
raffed, have been induced to commit ads of 
cruelty ; if their plans for being revenged 
have fometimes fucceeded ; and if they have 
trod down and deftroyed crops, burnt plan- 
tations, and maffacred the proprietors, the 
white people le;it them their fury, by giv- 
