re is nothing physically
impossible in the alleged result. The illustrious Baron Humboldt quotes
an instance of the male breast yielding milk; and, though I am not
conscious of being over-credulous, the strange instances I have examined
in the opposite sex make me believe that there is no error in that
philosopher's statement.

The Boers know from experience that adult captives may as well be
left alone, for escape is so easy in a wild country that no
fugitive-slave-law can come into operation; they therefore adopt the
system of seizing only the youngest children, in order that these may
forget their parents and remain in perpetual bondage. I have seen mere
infants in their houses repeatedly. This fact was formerly denied; and
the only thing which was wanting to make the previous denial of the
practice of slavery and slave-hunting by the Transvaal Boers no longer
necessary was the declaration of their independence.

In conversation with some of my friends here I learned that Maleke, a
chief of the Bakwains, who formerly lived on the hill Litubaruba, had
been killed by the bite of a mad dog. My curiosity was strongly excited
by this statement, as rabies is so rare in this country. I never heard
of another case, and could not satisfy myself that even this was real
hydrophobia. While I was at Mabotsa, some dogs became affected by a
disease which led them to run about in an incoherent state; but I doubt
whether it was any thing but an affection of the brain. No individual
or animal got the complaint by inoculation from the animals' teeth;
and from all that I could hear, the prevailing idea of hydrophobia not
existing within the tropics seems to be quite correct.

The diseases known among the Bakwains are remarkably few. There is
no consumption nor scrofula, and insanity and hydrocephalus are rare.
Cancer and cholera are quite unknown. Small-pox and measles passed
through the country about twenty years ago, and committed great ravages;
but, though the former has since broken out on the coast repeatedly,
neither disease has since traveled inland. For small-pox, the natives
employed, in some parts, inoculation in the forehead with some animal
deposit; in other parts, they employed the matter of the small-pox
itself; and in one village they seem to have selected a virulent case
for the matter used in the operation, for nearly all the village was
swept off by the disease in a malignant confluent form. Where the idea
came from