DEDICATION 
hcep them unacquainted with every kind 
of fpirit. Such of them as have already taft- 
ed thefe intoxicating poifons, will fell their 
all to pofleis them.- Although in their deal- 
ings, they will frequently rejecl articles of 
real utility, fuch as iron, tobacco, &:€. yet 
the moment a bottle of rum or brandy is pro- 
duced, their refolution finks, and a fingle 
giafs is fure to conclude the bargain. The 
confequences are often dreadful ; once in- 
toxicated, they become really favage, and, 
defpifing danger, ruih into enormities o£ 
the moft tremendous defcription. 
• Throughout the greater part of the fouth- 
ern continent of Africa, which lhave before 
delineated, the natives have no fettled pla- 
ces for their refidence. — They occafionaliy 
w^ander from place to place, as their neceffi- 
ties direct, and frequently commence hoftil- 
ities with each other, for the poffellion of 
certain diftricls, where vegetation is more 
produftive, and water contiguous. As they 
conceive all right to be derived from power 
only, the ftrengeft hoorde takes poffellion, 
until they find it neceffary to feek again 
fome new habitation, or yield in their turn 
to a fucceeding conqueror. 
in this ftate of nature live a people that 
might be rendered civilized, and happily 
engaged in all the ufeful occupations of fo- 
cicty. But I have heard. Sir, of a tribe of 
Africans, who inhabit the mountains of 
thefe parts, that are naturally fo untradabie 
