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ttie honour of being admitted into that order 
of knighthood ; the progrefs and ceremonials 
of which the hiftorian has defcribed with no 
lefs pomp than minutenefsc 
Alas ! all thefe fplendid chimeras vanifiied 
before me. Religion^ police, laws, military 
tadics, orders of battle, treaties of peace, ex- 
p.erieaced generals^ prifoners of war, vanquifli- 
ers and vanqiiiflied, Were all romances exifting 
only in the brain of the author, and in the 
taverns where they had been told him by thofe 
who made him their fporc. 
Thirty or forty years after the publication 
of his voyage, Abbe de la Caille made fome 
flay at the Gape^ and thus was enabled, on 
fome points at leaft, to pafs judgment on the 
work. He fpoke of it as he ought, and as it 
deferves; Since la Caille, other travellers have 
given their opinions of Kolberi ; and the learned 
now know how far they may rely on the ac- 
counts of that traveller. 
To liften to him, in all the Hottentot tribes 
without exception, m^others have the inhu- 
man prejudice of refolving not to have twins, 
and the abominable cuftom of deftroying one 
tof the two. If the twins confift of two. boy$. 
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