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my Kabobiquas. Their needles would fooa 
be broken and unferviceable, like the razor of 
the chief; and their chagrin would be increafed 
by the impoffibility of renewing them. If the 
knowledge of a new art affords by its advan- 
tages new enjoyments, it occafioris alfo nqw 
wants ; and to teach it to a people, without 
fecuring to theni the means of exercifmg it, 
is niaking them a very bad prefent. 
I fhould in like rnanner have much tQ rcr 
proach niyfelf with, had I been the firft perfon 
who rnade the Kabobiquas acquainted with 
tobacco and fpirlts. But, before my arrival 
among them, they ufed the former, which 
they received, in exchange for caUle, fron^ 
the Nimiqua tribes their neighbours, to whon^ 
it was conveyed from the Cape, by paffing 
through various hands in commerce. A$ 
this traiBc, however, did not take place but 
under certain circumftances, tobacco w^as on 
that account exceedingly fcarce, and a luxury 
w^hich they could feldom enjoy. However, 
being often deprived of it, they can eafily bear 
the want ; and fo indifferent are they upon 
the fubje£l:,that, if it wer^ not brought to them, 
they would not go a ftep to procure it. 
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