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and having contrafted no alliance with m^j 
might diicover my fires, and think themfelves 
authorifed to take me by fiirprife, and attack 
me in the night, after the manner of thofe free- 
booters known in general by the name of 
Bofhmen* 
My adventures have given me already many 
opportunities of fpeaking of thefe Boflimen* 
I have before faid, that the people at the Cape 
comprehend under this general appellation 
every man, of whatever nation or colour, who, 
deferting, retires to the forefts or the moun- 
tains, there to aflbciate with other fugitives^ 
live with them under fuch laws as a band of 
robbers may be fuppofed to form, and fubfift 
by rapine, without even fparing fimilar aflb- 
ciations of his fellows and equals. 
The Houzouanas, being known only by 
their incurfions and plundering, are in the co- 
lonies often confounded with the Boflimeny 
and diftinguiflied by the fame appellation.- 
Sometimes, however, from their tawny co- 
lour, they are called Chinefe Hottentots ; and, 
by means of this double denomination, ill-in- 
formed travellers may eafily be led into an 
error, of which the confequence muft be, that 
c their 
