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Show 52 ON THE SLAvERY AND CoMMERCil " greateil: number of Bo01ies-men that can " be brought together; as the former always keep at the difl:ance of about an hundred, or an hundred and fifty paces Uuil: as they find it convenient) and charging their heavy fire-arms with a very large kind of iliot, jump off their horfes, and reil: their pieces in their ufual manner on their ramrods, in order that they may 01oot with the greater certainty; fo that the balls difcharged by them will [ornetimes, as I have been alrnred, go through the bodies of fix, feven, or eight of the enemy at a time, efpecially as thefe latter know no better than to keep clofe together in a body."--- " And not only is the capture of the Hottentots confidered by them merely as a party of pleafure, but in cold blood they deil:roy the bands which nature ha> knit between their hulbands, and the1r wives and children, &c." With what horrour do thefe paffages feem to !l:rike us ! What indignation do they feem to raifc in our breafl:s, when we reflect, that a part of the human fpecies are co11fidered as OF THE HUMAN SPECIES. 53 as game, and that parties if pleqfore are made for their dtjh·uCliolt! The lion does not imbrue his claws in blood, unlefs called upon by hunger, or provoked by interruption; whereas the mercilefs Dutch, more £wage than th_e brutes themfclves, not only mur. der t~eJr fellow-creatures without any provocatiOn or neceffity, but even make a diverfion of their fulferings, ancj enjoy their pain, End of the firil: Part. PARI' |