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having been fpread, though without any foun- 
dation, in lefs than twenty-four hours, from 
a thoufand to twelve hundred of them made 
their appearance in a body; and thefe would 
have been followed by all the reft, had not an 
order been ilTued to ftop them. 
Thofe however would be in a great error, 
who from what I have faid fhould imagine that 
all thefe planters are fo many Csefars. This is 
far from being the cafe ; and indeed fuch an 
idea would ill agree with the accounts I have 
before given when fpeaking of their war with 
the Caffres, and of their pofTeffions every 
where abandoned and deferted. Born for the 
moft part among rocks, a favage and ruftic 
education has made them like fo many giants 
with refped: to ftrength ; but, though accuC- 
tomed from their carlieft infancy to watch and 
furprife the monftrous animals of Africa, they 
are abfolutely not fit but for a firft attack, or 
to fucceed in an ambufcade. They would not 
ftand in the open field, nor would they ever 
return to a fecond charge. They are not ac- 
quainted with that courage which is infpired 
by a fenfe of honour, but with that only 
w^hich arifes from a eonfcioufpcfs of one's 
Y ^ ftrength 
