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 ufficient to make uch Obervations, we may afely give Credit upon thee Occaions to ocular Witnees. I hall extract at random ome Examples from the firt Books that come in my way.

"The Hottentots, ays Kolben, are better Fihermen than the Europeans of the Cape. They ue the Net, the Hook and the Dart, with equal Dexterity, in the Creeks on the Sea Shore and in their Rivers. They are no les expert at taking Fih with their Hands. In wimming nothing can compare with them. Their Manner of wimming has omething very urpriing in it, and quite peculiar to them. They wim erect with their Hands above Water, o that they eem to walk upon dry Land. In the mot mountainous Seas they dance in a Manner on the Backs of the Waves, acending and decending like a Piece of Cork."

The Hottentots, the ame Author tells us in another Place, are urpriingly dexterous at Hunting, and their Nimblenes at Running is altogether inconceiveable; and he is atonihed