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Like the Beduln Arabs, they think much of 
the trouble of driving them from canton to 
canton, and from one pafturage to another* 
This wandering Hfe prevents them from build- 
ing any fettled habitations. When their flocks 
oblige them to fojourn for a while in the fame 
place, they conftrudt, in hafte, a rude kind of 
hut, which they cover with matts, after the 
manner of the Hottentots, whofe cuftoms they 
have adopted, and from whom they in no re- 
fpefl: differ, but in their com^plexion and fea- 
tures. And here the evil is, that there is no 
precife fituation in focial life to which thefe 
miferable beings belong. 
Thefe fluggifli tribes are held in horror by 
their induftrious neighbours, who dread their 
approach, and remove as far from them as 
they can ; becaufe, having no property of their 
own, they fteal without fcruple that of others, 
and, when in want of pafturage for their cattle, 
condud: them fecretly to the firft cultivated 
piece of ground that comes in their way. They 
flatter themfelves they fliall not be difcovered, 
and they remain till every thing is devoured. 
If deteded in their thefts, fquabbles and con- 
tentions enfue, and afterwards a fuit at law, ia 
which, recourfe is had to the magiftrate ( drof- 
fart). 
