AFRICA. 17 
Itis true, thefe buyers, after being thus duped 
at the Cape, commonly return home only to 
make dupes of others. The cunning that has 
been employed to deceive them, they employ in 
their turn to tempt the Hottentots who are in 
their fervice. The remnants of ftulF, or the 
frippery garments which they bring back, arc 
fold to thefe unfortunate fervants with fo great 
a profit, that commonly the wages of a year 
are inadequate to the payment, and they find 
themfelves, like their mafters, in debt for the 
year that is to come. In*the end, therefore, it is 
the poor Hottentot that pays for the extortion 
at the Cape. The circumftances I have here 
mentioned, are an epitome of the pradices of 
the world in all conditions of life. The fubtle 
knave always knows how to impofe a tax 
upon the fool, who, having paid it, attempts 
to impofe it upon fome other fool ; fo that at 
laft it is the greateft dolt that bears the burthen. 
And thus do men chain themfelves together 
by means that ought in reality to difunite 
them. 
One might fuppofe that the planters, of the 
daft of which I am fpeaking, from their prac- 
tice of agriculture, would beftow fome atten- 
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