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tives a hospitality, and received from them 
a protection, which on many of the shores 
that belong to the polished nations of 
Europe I might have sought for in vain. 
These unfortunate inhabitants of Caffraria, 
who have been so often and so wickedly 
denominated savages that delight and 
revel in human slaughter, I found pos- 
sessed of all those compassionate feelings, 
that alone give a lustre to and adorn hu- 
manity ; living in a state of perpetual 
alarm from the persecuting and avaricious 
disposition of the colonists, and instructed 
by their fathers to consider a white man as 
a being, who never hesitates to murder 
when plunder is in view, still a justifiable 
revenge yielded to the virtuous impulse of 
compassion, and our necessities were ge- 
nerously relieved, without even the pro- 
spect of recompense. When thrown by 
the raging of the elements on the sandy 
shores of their country, we were all un- 
armed, not having saved from the wreck a 
single article, either for our defence, cloth- 
ing, or subsistence : in this situation we 
were completely at the mercy of the na- 
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