MEMOIR OF LE VAILLANT. 
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manners are liberal, generous, and humane ; and he 
never fails to speak with gratitude of the services 
he received, or the simple attentions he experienced, 
even in the kraals of the Hottentots. 
Certain travellers, among others Barrow and 
Lichtenstein, who visited the same regions at a 
subsequent period, have called in question some of 
his statements, especially as having mentioned the 
names of tribes that are no longer found to exist. 
But it is quite clear that both parties may be cor- 
rect. A few years would be sufficient to work a 
considerable change in the state of society in a 
country inhabited by hordes of wandering savages ; 
and it is neither impossible nor improbable that 
between the year 1782, of which M. Le Yaillant 
speaks, and 1797, the period referred to by Mr. 
Barrow, some of these migratory tribes might have 
been dispersed, and their very names entirely for- 
gotten. 
In other respects, his relations as to the fierce and 
implacable hatred between the colonists and the 
natives, are corroborated by future travellers. The 
Rev. John Campbell of Kingsland Chapel, near 
London, who twice visited South Africa as a mis- 
sionary, mentions that he saw, near the Raven 
mountains, a female who recollected perfectly of M. 
Le Vaillant having sojourned in her house. Camp- 
bell says, indeed, that our traveller sometimes mixes 
too much of the romantic in his narratives ; but he 
admits that he has described with great accuracy 
the maimers and habits of the Hottentots. Mon- 
