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569. Some account of the Cape of Good hope
[Margin note] Bulls Besides this they train up Bulls which they constantly place round their Crawls or towns in the night these will constantly Assemble & oppose either man or beast that aproaches them nor will they desist till they hear the voices of their masters who know how either to encourage them to fight or in an instant make them as tame & tractable as their other Cattle
Some Nations know how to melt & prepare Copper, which is found among them probably native of which they & make of it broad plates with which they ornament their foreheads others again indeed most know how to harden bitts of Iron which they procure from the dutch & make of them knives of a temper superior to any the dutch can sell them
Their cheif people many of whoom have a large quantity of Cattle of their own are generaly clad in the skins of Lions Tygers or Zebras &c. which they know how to fringe
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