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the world of fuch a monfter. The fellow fhrunk from the 
enquiries of the indignant general ; he had nothing to allege 
againft him but that he had always been a worthlefs boy j he had 
loft him fo many fheep ; he had flept when he ought to watch 
the cattle, and fuch like frivolous charges of a negative kind,, 
the amount of which, if true, only proved that his own intereft: 
had fometimes been neglected by this child. 
Determined to make an example of the author of fuch un-.- 
paralleled brutality, the General ordered him inftantly to yoke- 
his oxen to his waggon, and, placing the boy by his fide, to 
drive diredly to head-quarters. Here he gave orders to the. 
farrier of the 8th regiment of Light Dragoons to ftrike off the 
irons from the boy, an operation that required great nicety and 
attention, and to clench them as tight as he could on the legs 
of his niafter, who roared and bellowed in a mod violent man- 
ner, to the inexpreflible fatisfadion of the by-ftanders, and,, 
above all, to that of the little fufferer juft relieved from torment. 
For the whole of the firft night his lamentations were inceflant; 
with a Stentorian voice a thoufand times he vociferated, " Myn 
" God I IS dat een maniere om Chrljlian metifcb te hajideleii P"" 
" My God ! is this a way to treat Chriftians !" His, however,,, 
vxrere not the agonies of bodily pain, but the burfts of rage and 
refentment on being put on a level with one, as they call them, 
of the Zwarte Natie-, between whom and the ChrlJiian Menfcb 
they conceive the difference to be fully as great as between 
themfelves and their cattle, and whom, indeed, they moft 
commonly honour with the appellation of Zivarte Vee^ black 
catde. Having roared for three days and as many nights, at 
firft 
