AFRICA. 
tie in fome other pl2.ce. Thus, after a thou- 
fand vexations, and after lofmg part of their 
cattle, thefe poor favages faw themfelves on 
the point of being driven from the land in 
which they had been born, and reduced to 
feek a diftant afylum, where they might re- 
main unknown to the whites, whom they 
had fo many reaf^ons to execrate. 
My heart bied at the relation of fuch atro- 
cities : but ftill what could I do? The horde 
requefted me to wait upon the two ufurp- 
ing families, and talk to them upon the fub- 
jedl. This I readily promifed ; though I was 
certain beforehand 4t would anfwer no pur- 
pofe. 
And here it will probably be a&ed, Why . 
did not Nafecp addrefs himfelf direftly to the 
Government, to obtain juftice and reftitution ? 
1 put to him the very fame queftion : and the 
anfwer he gave was fuch as I expected, and 
which proved, that, if Adminiftration have 
promulgated laws in favour of the favages, It 
has not yet taken the neceffary means to en- 
fure their execution. 
Suppofmg the people of a horde defirous of 
making a complaint, and not deterred by the 
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