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shall give you (says the intelligent writer) 
my sentiments freely on this occasion, be- 
cause I do not conceive that any of the 
European nations have a right to inter- 
pose : the Dutch, who formerly possessed 
the Cape of Good-Hope, but which, on my 
arrival there, I found in possession of the 
English, encouraged colonization to a cer- 
tain degree, and their people have, within 
the last century, proceeded into the in- 
terior, cultivated lands and formed settle- 
ments 400 miles distant from the Cape. 
As these colonists advance they hunt the 
unfortunate natives as they do the lion 
and the panther, dispossess them of their 
lands by force, rob them of their cattle, 
and, by every possible means, endeavour 
to effect a total extirpation of the original 
and unoffending inhabitants. This inhu- 
man conduct must surely meet the execra- 
tion of every man not totally lost to the 
feelings of humanity ; but still it may be 
alleged, that having got possession of those 
lands, no matter by what means, their 
right is established, and they cannot be 
dispossessed by a foreigner, as such a con- 
