Series 03: Joseph Banks - Endeavour journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 (vol. 2) - No. 0666
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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