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of the African planters : confidered themfelves 
as peafants at the Cape, they look upon the 
fubalterns in the Company's fervice with con- 
tempt. 
Schoenmaker appeared hurt at the coarfe 
irony of Pinar, yet kept his temper, and anfwer'* 
ed his farcafms without anger or afperity. But 
Bernfry taking it into his head to crack his 
joke upon him too, the man whom I had 
hitherto feen fo gentle and peaceable felt all 
his refentment revive at onge. He burft out 
into a dreadful paffion, which it was impot 
fible for me to curb ; and, with all the vio- 
lence of a mind enraged when it can govern 
itfelf no longer, he reproached him with the 
aflaffination of feveral Nimiquas, whom he 
had murdered in order to fteal their cattle ; and 
that of a Hottentot girl, who, aft r having been 
the Yidim of his luft, became a facrifi$:e to hl§ 
jealoufy ; with many fimijar a£ts of atrocity, 
which froze my blood to hear, Bernfry, with-» 
out difowning thefe imputations, anfwered only 
by expreffions of equal rage. At length feiz-^. 
ing him by the collar with one hand, and 
taking his fufee in the other, he faid i Thou 
lhalt fees vile failor, that I fliall think nothing 
of 
