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DEDICATION. 
cy to alleviate the forrows of humanity. 
The untutored tribes of America have alrea* 
cly experienced the beneficence of your na- 
ture, and I am bow defirous to arrcit your 
attention and intereft your feelings, on be-^ 
half of thofe wandering children of nature,., 
who are fcattered over the deferts of tlie 
African world : a race of unofiencling mor- 
tals, long perfecuted by thofe enlightened Sav--^ 
ages^ wliOj under the appellations, of cbrifii* 
ans and Ditfchmefiy fettled thenifelves by vio- 
lence on the fouthern promontory. 
To nae^ Sirj this is a mbjecl - that takes 
full poiTeHlon of all my ailections. Call, vnl\\ 
ilxty of my people^ on the fliores of Caffra^- 
fla^ after combating the horrors of a tem« 
peft^ which I believe has but few parallels^ 
in the hiftory of naval misfortune (and 
which will be fully defcribed in the fucceed-- 
•ing narrative,) I found in the natives a liof- 
pitaiity, and received from thera a protec- 
tion, which on many of the iliores that be- 
long to the poliilied nations of Europe I 
might have fought for in vain, Thefe un- 
fi ^imnate inhabitants of Caffi^aria^ who have 
been fo often and fo wickedly denominated 
lavages, that delight and revel in human 
llaughter, I found poffefled of all thofe com- 
pafiionate feelings, that alone give a luttre 
to, and adorn humanity ; living in a ftate 
' of perpetual alarm from the perfecuting and 
avaricious difpofiticn of the colonifts, and 
iaftruaed by th.eir fathers to, cp^lider a -d^hite 
