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TRAVELS IN AFRICA. 
o^N^mber ^^^^^ colle(9:ed in the mountains ; they were armed with 
— bows and arrows, and the captain who was with them had a 
Haflagai or fpear in his hand, and heavy ivory rings on his 
right arm. On my return to the farmer's houfe, I found them 
to be of the tribe of Chonacquas. 
On the evening of the twenty-third, one of the fervants 
informed us, that he had feen a Hon before fun-fet, about a 
thoufand yards from the houfe. Expeding a vifit from him 
men have their haunts. This is bell difcovered by the fmoke of their fires. They are found 
in focieties from ten to fifty and a hundred, reckoning great and fmall together. Notwithftand- 
ing this, the farmers will venture on a dark night to fet upon them with fix or eight people, 
which they contrive to do, by previoufly ftationing themfelves at fome diftance round about the 
Craal. They then give the alarm by firing a gun or two. By this means there is fuch a con- 
ilernation fpread over the whole body of thefe favages, that it is only the moH: bold and intelli- 
gent among them, who have the courage to break through the. circle and fteal off. Thefe the 
captors are glad enough to get rid of at fo eafy a rate, thofe that are ftupid, timorous, and firuck 
with amazement, and who, in confequence of this fl:upor, allow themfelves to be taken and 
carried into bondage, anfwering their purpofe much better. They are, however, at firft, treated 
by gentle methods ; that is, the viflors intermix the faireft promifes with their threats, and en- 
deavour, if poffible, to fhoot fome of the larger kinds of game for their prifoners, fuch as buffa- 
loes, fea-cows, and the like. Such agreeable baits, together with a little tobacco, foon induce 
them, continually cockered and feafted as they are, to go with a tolerable degree of chearfwlnefs 
•to the colonift's place of abode. There thefe luxurious feafts of meat and fat are exchanged 
•for more moderate portions, confiding for the moft part of butter-milk, frumenty, and hafty- 
pudding. This diet, neverthelefs, makes the Bofhiefman fat, as I faid before, in a few weeks. 
• However, he foon finds his good living embittered by the maundering and grumbling of his 
mafter and miftrefs. The words T'guzeri and T'gaunatfi, which, perhaps, are bed tranllated 
by thofe of Young Sorceror and Imp, are exprelfions which he muft frequervtly put up with, and 
'fometimes a few curfes and blows into the bargain ; and this for negleft, remillhefs or idlenefs : 
which lafl failure, if it cannot be faid to be born with him, is however in a manner naturalifed 
in him. So that, both by nature and cuftom, detefting all manner of labour, and now, from 
his greater corpulency, becoming flill more flothful, and having befides been ufed to a wandering 
life, fubje£t to no control, he mod fenfibly feels the want of his liberty. No wonder then, that 
he generally endeavours to regain it by making his efcape : but what is really a fubjefl for won- 
der is, that, when one of thefe poor devils runs away from his fervice, or more properly bond- 
age, he never takes with him any thing that does not belong to him." 
