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rain I but he v^ho paflfes on the weft fide, 
takes it that he may flielter himfelf from the 
beams of the fun. 
Strangers are generally well received at the 
Cape by thofe who are in the Company's fer- 
vice, and by fome others who are private peo^ 
pie ; but the Englifh are adored^ either on 
account of the fimilarxty between the manners 
of the two nations, or of their very much af- 
feding to be generous. It is an undoubted 
fadi that, whenever they arrive, every one is 
eager to offer them lodging. In lefs than 
eight days every thing becomes Englifli in 
the houfe upon which they have fixed their 
choice ; and the niafter, the miftrefs, and even 
the children, foon aiTume their manners. At 
table, for example, the knife never fails to 
difcharge the office of the fork. 
Of all nations, the French are the leafl ef- 
teemed ; the citizens, above all, cannot en- 
dure them ; and this hatred is often carried 
fo far, that I have heard fome of the inha- 
bitants fay, they had much rather be taken 
by the EngliiTi, than owe their fafety to the 
arms of the French nation. Such converfa- 
tion I at firft coniidered as exaggeration ; and 
. thousrht. 
