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they were nearly all either extinct or reduced t® 
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 bruta- 
lity. The lashes are inflicted, not by number, 
but by time ; they are continued till the master 
has smoked a certain number of pipes. This sys- 
tem of " 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 
most 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. " The word with them 
" 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 
precaution against the influence of the sun's rays 
in so parched a climate. In the females, the ex- 
