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the banks of the Sunday River, to which he gave a kind of re- 
ludant affent. 
The whole of the party that accompanied this chief were tall, 
iipriglit, and v^/ell made men; affording a clear proof that ani- 
mal food is by no means necefl'ary to promote the growth of 
the human fpecies ; or to add ftrength of fibre to the mufcular 
parts of the body; on the contrary, reafoning from the general 
make and liature of the Dutch boors, who gorge t'lemfelves 
with animal food floating in fat, Ironi morning till night, 
one v/ould be apt to conclude, that fo far from being neceffary, 
it is not even conducive to ftrength of mufcle ; but that its only 
tendency was to produce a laxity of the fibres, a fluggifh habit 
cf budy, and extreme corpulency ; for the Dutch boors, though 
of a monftrous fize, poiTefs neither Pirength nor adivity. Per- 
haps, indeed, thefe two qualities m.ay be cunfidered as correla- 
tives, and that the defedl of the former may be miore owing to 
a want of the latter than to the nature of their food. Thofe, 
perhaps, who have been accuftomed to obferve the peafantry on 
the north-weft coaft of Ireland, a tall, ftrong, and bravv'ny race 
of men, fubfifting on butter- milk and potatoes, v/ill think it un- 
neceffary to produce the Kaffers as inftances of the above re- 
mark ; it may ferve, however, to fhew that difference of cli- 
mate has no power to alter the general principle, and that the 
fame caufe produces the fame effedt in the northern parts of Eu- 
rope and in the fouthern corner of Africa. 
Milk in a curdled ftate is the principal food of the Kaffers, 
To this they fometimes add a few gramineous roots, berries of 
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