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the native Hottentots. Twenty years ago, their 
kraals were said to have been numerous; now 
they were nearly all either extinct or reduced 
to slavery. Only one of their old captains, 
called Haasbeck, survived. As slaves, they are 
treated with extreme cruelty. Whipping, with 
heavy leather thongs, forms the lightest part of 
their punishment. Firing small shot into their 
legs is not unfrequently practised ; and instant 
death is sometimes the consequence of the master's 
brutality. The lashes are inflicted, not by num- 
ber, but by time ; they are continued till the mas- 
ter has smoked a certain number of pipes. This 
" flogging by pipes" has been so much approved 
of, as to be introduced into several others of the 
Dutch settlements. 
The Hottentot is described by Mr Barrow as 
mild, quiet, timid, perfectly harmless, honest, and 
faithful. He is also kind and affectionate, and 
ready to share his last morsel with his companions. 
Indolence is his disease, which nothing but the 
m-ost extreme terror can overcome. The calls of 
hunger are insufficient ; which is the more re- 
markable, as they are the greatest gluttons on the 
face of the earth. Ten of them ate a middling 
sized ox in three days. 9f The word with them 
f 1 is to eat and sleep." The grease, which forms 
a thick black coating over their skins, however 
little ornamental, is conceived to be a salutary pre- 
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