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the head, the heart, the liver, &c. were all included among the 
offals ; but an increafe in the confumption having caufed an 
increafe in the price of butchers' meat, thefe parts of the animal 
have, of late, been fold as well as the carcafe ; and the dogs have 
confequently lefs to clear away. Sometimes the wolves and 
hyenas defcend from their dens in the Table Mountain, and 
difpute the fpoil with the dogs : at (-uch times the town re- 
founds with their hideous bowlings the whole night long. 
The circumftance of Southern Africa being free from the 
canine madnefs, and alfo from the fmall pox, would lead one 
to conclude that neither the one nor the other of thefe difeafes 
were of fpontaneous origin ; but that adlual biting in the one 
cafe, and adual contad in the other, were neceflary for their 
produdion. Whatever may have been the caufe that firft 
created thofe difeafes, it fhould feem fuch caufe has not yet 
exifted here, or that the climate is unfavourable for its opera- 
tion. Twice fmce the foundation of the colony the fmall pox 
have been brought into it, and both times have committed 
dreadful havock among the fettlers. That fuch will always be- 
the fatal eff^ds, may readily be imagined among fo grofs a peo- 
ple, unprepared for the reception of the difeafe, and ignorant 
how to treat it ; but it is not fo eafy to conceive in what man- 
ner they got rid of It. I believe it is now forty years fmce the 
laft time it made its appearance. All the old Kaffers, T obferved, 
were ftrongly marked with it ; the difeafe, they fay, was brought 
among them by a {hip that was ftranded on their coaft; and I 
{hould conclude it has vifited them fmce the time it was laft^ 
brought into Cape Town, as the chief Congo, who could not, 
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