At the same time one cannot feel much pity
for the Bechuanas, when one learns that they are
slave-holders themselves, and have been from
time immemorial, and that they are the hardest
task-masters that can be imagined. The few
white men that visit this distant region see or



Feliow- Passengers.
ow notliing of the existence of this institutiUh

among them, for the victims are kept out upon

tte Kalihari desert, toiling day and night, en-

iduring, unsheltered, every variation of tempera-

I, to procure for their masters ivory, skins,

d feathers. These unfortunate beings that are

us employed generally belong to the Bushman

ibe, a race which, with the exception of the

igger Indians of the Rocky Mountains, may be

insidcred the lowest in the scale of the human

ily.
