ſufficient to make ſuch Obſervations, we may ſafely give Credit upon theſe Occaſions to ocular Witneſſes. I ſhall extract at random ſome Examples from the firſt Books that come in my way.
"The Hottentots, ſays Kolben, are better Fiſhermen than the Europeans of the Cape. They uſe the Net, the Hook and the Dart, with equal Dexterity, in the Creeks on the Sea Shore and in their Rivers. They are no leſs expert at taking Fiſh with their Hands. In ſwimming nothing can compare with them. Their Manner of ſwimming has ſomething very ſurpriſing in it, and quite peculiar to them. They ſwim erect with their Hands above Water, ſo that they ſeem to walk upon dry Land. In the moſt mountainous Seas they dance in a Manner on the Backs of the Waves, aſcending and deſcending like a Piece of Cork."
The Hottentots, the ſame Author tells us in another Place, are ſurpriſingly dexterous at Hunting, and their Nimbleneſs at Running is altogether inconceiveable; and he is aſtoniſhed
