DEDICATION. 
as to predbdc ail hope of their ever being; 
induced to mingle with any fociety but their 
own. — ^Thefe are denominated Bojlns-men^ 
or Men of the Woods ^ and have been defcrib- 
ed by travellers, as vagrants of the diiTerent 
hoordeSj wdio after being expelled by their 
brethren for bad conduct, have united in 
the mountains, formed a community of 
their own, and rob, murder and delolate 
without diftinClion. 
This account, Sir, is not entirely correct:. 
The Bojlm-men^ it is true, wage perpetual war 
with every hoorde, and plunder w^herever 
they come. They are not, however, the 
outcafts of other tribes^ but a dijlin^l race of 
7neh. The Africans in genellll, at leaft fucli 
as came under my obfervatibn, are a tall, 
robuft, aftive people. On the contrary, the 
are perhaps the moft diminutive 
r?iCe that have been yet difcovered in any 
part of the v/orld. They very feldom ex- 
ceed four feet fix inches in ftature, but are 
as nimble and alert as their gazelles. In the 
day time, they generally keep in their kraals 
on the mountains ; but at night, they de- 
feend in purfuit of plunder, frequently tra- 
vel to a diftance aim oft incredible, and re- 
turn to their habitations L*cfore the morning 
dawn. Such a people ftiould moft certainly 
be exterminated, if not capable of civiliza- 
tion ; but this idea arifes from a total igno- 
rance of the human character. Man is only 
^fanjaphoi^^hahii; he is ever capable of 
