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[Page 671]

567.
Some account of the Cape of Good Hope

This little and no more of the customs of this much spoke of people Had I myself an opportunity of seeing  from the Dutch indeed I heard much of which I select the following

Within the boundaries of the dutch settlements are many different nations of Hottentots differing from each other in customs very materialy  of these some are far superior to others in arts in general  however all live peaceably with each other seldom fighting  except those who live to the Eastward who are much infested with people calld by the dutch Bosch men  who live intirely upon plunder  stealing the Cattle of the Hottentots but never openly attacking them  they are armd however with Lances or Assagays  arrows which they know how to poison  some with the juice of herbs others with the poison of the Snake calld Cobra di Capelo
[Margin note]  throw stones
& stones which some particular tribes know so well how to throw that they will repeatedly strike a dollar or crown peice at the distance of 100 paces

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