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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, and curiosities, so they can bring nothing to market but a little butter, such skins of wild beasts as they have been able to procure, and 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.
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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© Derived from State Library of NSW Transcription of Banks's Journal page (vol. 2) 562, February 2004
Published by kind permission of the Library
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