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in proportion to their talents. They are all 
properly clothed ; but they go barefooted, as a 
mark of flavery. That infolent fet of do- 
meftics called footmen^ are not to be feen at 
the Cape ; for pride and luxury have not yet 
introduced thofe Idle and contemptible attend- 
ants, v/ho in Europe line the anti- chambers 
of the rich, and who in their deportment ex- 
hibit every mark of impertinence. 
On arriving at the Cape, oy\c is aftoniflied 
to fee a multitude of flaves as white as Eu- 
ropeans ; but this aftonifhment ceafes when it 
is known that the young negreffes, if they are 
in the leaft handfome, have each a foldier of 
the garrifon, with whom they may go and 
fpend every Sunday in whatever manner they 
choofe, Self-intereft makes the mafters wink 
at the irregularity of their flaves, becaufe they 
txped to reap confiderable profit from thi^ 
licentious cohabitation. 
There are fome negreffes, however, who 
are lawfully married, and negroes eftabllfhed 
in bufmefs, who form one body with the citi-^ 
zens. Thefe are men, who, on account of 
their fervices, or from fome other motives, 
hjive been inade free* The facility with which 
they 
