This page has already been transcribed. You can find new pages to transcribe here.

Transcription

[Page 673]

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

Current Status: 
Completed