S OUTHERN AFRICA. 
of Cape Toivn. — The Burgher and the Whale. — Character and Mode of Life 
— tenacious of Ratik. — Hottentot Corps — CharaEier of .'-^Condition of the Slaves.— ^ 
Imprudence of the Whites. — Adminifl ration of fuflice between the Whites and 
Blacls. — Rencontre ivith the Kaff'er Chief Congo. —Comparifon between the Fer- 
■ fons of Boors and Kaffers. — RefleBion.— Food of the Kajfers. — Boofuanas. — City 
cf Leetahoo. — ConjeBure of the Kaffer Origin — Extent of their Country — their 
Dogs not fubjeEl to Canine Madnefs. — Small Pax not endemic in South Africa—- 
Origin of. — High Situations favourable to the Growth of Animals.'— Uncommon 
Injlance of Bulk in a Woman — Fate of this haplefs Creature. — Attack cf the 
Kaffers upon the Britifj Troops — a wounded Kaffer taken. — Rencontre of Boots 
and Hottentots at Algoa Bay.—Kaffers form the BritiJJj Camp. — Mebncholy Fat: 
of Lieutenant Chumney and fixieen Men.-— Ill judged ConduEl of the Boors — Con- 
fequences.— Hatred of Kaffers and Hottentots againf the Boors — Conducl of the 
latter at Plettenberg's Bay. — Horrid Murder committed in Lange Klooff.— Curious 
Articles of InfruBions propofed for the Boors in their Wars with the Kaffers.— 
Return to the Cape. — Change of ConduB in the Colonifs — reconciled to the Britifs 
Government — indifferent as to the Return of their own — little Rejoicing fheiun at 
this Event —Reafons of it — final Evacuation, 
jpROM the moment that the departure of tlie Earl of 
Macartney for England v\^as made known in the diftant 
parts of the colony, the ignorant and mifguided boors, excited 
by that party of mifchievous, and not lefs ignorant, perfons in 
Cape Town, who had long fhewn themfelves averfe to all go- 
vernment, feemed to think that with his Lordfliip had departed 
all authority and the means of bringing them to legal punifli- 
ment. Their reftlefs and turbulent minds, and, above all, their 
avaricious and iniquitous views upon the harmlefs Kaffers, could 
no longer brook reftraint ; and they determined, at a felecl 
meeting, as one of them obferved in a letter to his friend at 
the Cape, " Now that the old Lord was gone away, to prove 
" themfelves true patriots." 
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