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in v/hlch they would be received. One might 
fuppofe them to be two inimical nations, always 
at war, and of whom fome individuals only 
met at diftant intervals, upon bufmefs that re- 
lated to their mutual interefts. 
What difgufts me the more in the Infolence 
of thefe Afridans is, that the majority of them 
are defcended from that corrupt race of men, 
taken from prifons and hofpitals, w^hom the 
Dutch company, defirous of forming a fettie- 
ment at the Gape, fent thither to begin, at their 
rifk and peril, the population of the country. 
This flhameful emigration, of which the period 
is not fo remote but that many circumftances 
of it are remembered^ ought, I conceive, to 
render particularly modeft thofe who are in 
the moft diftant manner related to it. On the 
contrary, it is this very idea that moft contri- 
butes to their arrogance ; as if they flattered 
themfelves that, under the guife of fupercilious 
manners, they could hide the abjedtnefs of their 
origin. If a ftranger arrives at the Cape with 
the defign of remaining and fettling there, they 
conceive him to be driven from his country 
by the fame wretched circumftances which for- 
merly baniflied their fathers, and they treat 
him with the moft fovereign contempt. 
This 
