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 that they do not oftener make a bad Ue of their Agility; for they do it ometimes, as we may ee by the following Story. "A Dutch Sailor, on his coming ahore at the Cape, ordered a Hottentot to follow him to Town with a Roll of Tobacco of about twenty Pounds Weight. When they had got to ome Ditance from the ret of the Company, the Hottentot aked the Sailor, Did he run well? Run well! anwered the Dutchman, yes, very well. Let's ee, replied the African; and campering away with the Tobacco, he was the next Moment out of Sight. The Sailor, truck with Amazement at the urpriing Fleetnes of the Savage, was too wie to think of puruing him, and never aw either his Tobacco or his Porter again."

"Their Sight is o quick, and their Aim with the Hand o ure, that the Europeans greatly fall hort of them in thee Repects. At a hundred Paces Ditance they will hit you with a Stone a Mark no bigger than a Half-penny; and what is till more urpriing, intead of fixing their Eyes upon it, they are all the Time running to and fro, and writhing their Bodies.