«776- tioned, as being eftabliihed among the Caffres, was fpared, and he was fent back to his people yet not without menaces of having his eyes put out, i f ever he ihould rife againft them in arms in future. This misfortune, and the falutary .leffon given him by his enemies, were not efficacious, however, as foon as he had again colleited together a number of his people, to divert his hoftile intentions againft the Caffres. It was faid, that he had lately endeavoured to fpirit up another petty Bofhies-man chief againft them, and had received from him promifes of affiftance, as foon as he could get iron to head his arrows with, and make the other neceffary preparations. They were apprehenfive, and not without reafon, that the old tyrant in this intended expedition o f his would meet with that death, which, tired o f himfelf and his adverfe fortune, he feemed to be in fearch of. He had, according to a cuftom prevalent among the Hottentots, appointed the youngeft of his three fons to be heir to his poffeffions and throne. Neither o f the three, however, was fuppofed to inherit the father’s talents and abilities in a fufficient degree, to be able to eftablifh himfelf on the throne. The refpedtive methods o f fighting of the Caffres and Hottentots are very different. The Caffres, as we have mentioned above, make ufe o f darts, which they cannot employ with any effecft at a greater diftance than twenty or thirty paces. Of thefe darts they do not carry with them into the field more than three or four; fo that they are foon difarmed, in cafe their antagonifts are bold and nimble enough to pick up thefe weapons as foon as the Caffres -have thrown them out of their hands. The Caffres, moreover, moreover, ufe ,a fhield made of fhoe-fole leather, and large enough to cover the whole o f their bodies completely, on vJvxJ their fhrinking themfelves up into a rather fmaller compafs. I have feen a baftard Caffre go through his exercife with thefe weapons; from whence I concludes that when they are in adtual engagement, they fhift their bodies continually from one fide u> the other, fo that they cannot eafily be hit, taking care all this time to keep their baj/cigais or darts in readinefs, to throw at the Unguarded part o f their antagonifts. The Bolhies-men, on the other hand, who are without any fhields, are more than a match for the Caffres, as long as they can keep them at a good diftance from them by means o f their bows and poifoned arrows, which, though they do not immediately make fo painful a wound, as the hajfagais o f the Caffres, are yet more dangerous in the end. It was in confequence o f this circumftance, that Ruy- T e u ’s Boihies-men beat the. Caffres for fo long a time. It has therefore been a matter o f wonder, that the Caffres have not learned the ufe of the bow and arrow, in like manner as their enemies the Boihies-men. This manner of fighting does not feem to require great courage, nor indeed does it appear calculated.to give either nation a difpoiition to it.. I f I may be allowed- to judge from two inftances, the flaves of, the Chriftians are of a much more warlike turn. Thefe,, confequently, when they elope from their mailers’ ferviee,, are fure to-be well received and protected by the Caffres. At leaft, a Caffre prince, notwithftanding that he had a handfome confideration offered ;him, had juft before our arrival in thefe parts,„ refufed to deliver up two flaves 5 belonging
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