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Roy, a relation of the man who fhot the three deferters, to afk 
for a little milk for his wife and child, who were nearly ex- 
haiifted with hunger. The unfeeling monfter feized the man, 
and bringing a loaded mufquet, ordered a Hottentot in his fer- 
vice to fhoot him ; the Hottentot obftinately perfifting to refufe, 
the exafperated boor fnatched the gun and fhot him dead upon 
the fpot, and then caufed the other Hottentot with his wife and 
child to be murdered ! If, obferves Mr. Vander Kemp, atrocious 
deeds like thefe are to pafs with impunity, the unfortunate Hot- 
tentots, not knowing whom to truft, would be driven to defpera- 
tion, and a general infurredion would be the confequence. 
It is, indeed, much lefs furprifing that this nation fliould, at 
length, be roufed to a fpirit of vengeance, than that it fliould 
fo long and fo patiently have endured every fpecies of injury. 
As pretended friends, and mafters, the boors have always treated 
them with injuftice and oppreffion ; as enemies, with barbarous 
inhumanity. In their expeditions againft the Bosjefmans, of 
which I have fpoken at large in the former volume, their chief 
aim is to murder the men, and make the children flaves. I can- 
not convey a better idea in what manner they have been accuf- 
tomed to condud their hoftile expeditions againft the KafFers, 
than by inferting a few articles of the inftrudlions, propofed by 
the Landroft of one of the diftridts, to be given to the com- 
mandant. 
" Article ift. No unneceflary cruelty to be exercifed on the 
prifoners, on pain of exemplary punifliment, 
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