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Some account of the Cape of Good Hope

accustomd to do  but great as these conveniencies are the people who come from afar must do little more than live as there is no trade here but for a few articles of provision which are sent to the East Indies & curiosities  so they can bring nothing to market but a little butter  such skins of wild beasts as they have been able to procure & some of them a few kinds of Drugs

there remains nothing now but to say a word or two concerning the Hottentots so frequently spoken of by travelers  by whoom they are generaly represented as the outcast of the Human species  a race whose intellectual faculties are so little superior to those of Beasts that some have been inclind to suppose them more nearly related to Baboons than Men

[Margin note]  Natives
Notwistanding I very much desird it I was not able to see any of their habitations  there being none as I was universaly informd within less than four days journey from
 

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