WHITENS JOURNAL OF A 
are, the ftables, and a houfe for their Haves. The former is 
a handfome range of buildings, capable of containing an 
incredible number of horfes. Thofe they have at the Cape 
are fmall, fpirited, and full of life. The latter is a building 
of confiderable extent, where the flaves, both male and 
female, have feparate apartments, in a very comfortable ftile, 
to refide in after the fatigues and toil of the day ; which 
undoubtedly is great, but by no means equal, in my opinion, 
to that endured by the flaves in our own colonies. How- 
ever fevere and cruel the Dutch may be confidered in other 
refpeAs, they certainly treat their flaves with great humanity 
and kindnefs ; which, I am forry to fay, I fcarcely ever faw 
done in the Weft Indies, during a refidence there of three years.; 
On the contrary, I have frequently been witnefs to the in- 
£idion of the moft brutal, cruel, and wanton punifhmentson 
thefe poor creatures, who are the fource and immediate fup- 
port of the fplendour of the Creoles. The bare retrofpedl of 
the cruelties I have feen exercifed there, excites a kind of hor- 
ror that chills my blood. At the Cape, there are feveral 
officers placed over the flaves, who have commodious apart- 
ments, and treat them humanely. 
The firft week after our arrival at this place, the militia, 
confifting 
