that they do not oftener make a bad Uſe of their Agility; for they do it ſometimes, as we may ſee by the following Story.
"A Dutch Sailor, on his coming aſhore 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 ſome Diſtance from the reſt of the Company, the Hottentot aſked the Sailor, Did he run well? Run well! anſwered the Dutchman, yes, very well. Let's ſee, replied the African; and ſcampering away with the Tobacco, he was the next Moment out of Sight. The Sailor, ſtruck with Amazement at the ſurpriſing Fleetneſs of the Savage, was too wiſe to think of purſuing him, and never ſaw either his Tobacco or his Porter again."
"Their Sight is ſo quick, and their Aim with the Hand ſo ſure, that the Europeans greatly fall ſhort of them in theſe Reſpects. At a hundred Paces Diſtance they will hit you with a Stone a Mark no bigger than a Half-penny; and what is ſtill more ſurpriſing, inſtead of fixing their Eyes upon it, they are all the Time running to and fro, and writhing their Bodies.
