4^ T R A V E L S I N 
farf)^ and which cammonfy terminates In mak-^ 
ing three men enemies, the robber, the perfon 
robbed, and the judge. 
Nothing can be fo mean and cringing as the 
eondud: of the firft defcription of planters, when 
they have any thing to tranfad with the prin- 
cipal officers of the company, who may have 
foriie influence over their lot ; and nothing fo 
abfurdly vain and fo fuperlatively infolent as 
their behaviour to perfons from whom they 
have nothing to hope and nothing to fear. 
Proud of their Wealth, fpoiled by refiding near 
a town, from whence they have imbibed only 
a luxury that has corrupted, and vices that have 
degraded them, it is particularly towards firan- 
gers that they exercife their furly and piti- 
ful arrogance. Though neighbours to the 
planters who inhabit the interior of the coun* 
try, you mufl: not fuppofe they regard them as 
brethren ; on the contrary, in the tfue fpirit df 
contempt, they have given them the name of 
Rauw-boer, a w^ord anfwering to the loweft 
defcription of clown. Accordingly, when 
thefe honeft cultivators come to the town upon 
any kind of bufinefs, they never flop by the 
way at the houfes of the gentry I am fpeaking 
of; they kiiow locr-weil the infulting rnanner 
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