Now, in briefly recounting the principal divisions of men, I will commence with those who are everywhere considered the lowest.

These are the Bushmen, who live wholly in the woods.
Even among the ancients, when every man, woman, and child could exercise those arts which are now the special mark of nobility, _i.e._ reading and writing, there was a degraded class of persons who refused to avail themselves of the benefits of civilization.

They obtained their food by begging, wandering along the highways, crouching around fires which they lit in the open, clad in rags, and exhibiting countenances from which every trace of self-respect had disappeared.

These were the ancestors of the present men of the bushes.
They took naturally to the neglected fields, and forming "camps" as they call their tribes, or rather families, wandered to and fro, easily subsisting upon roots and trapped game.

So they live to this day, having become extremely dexterous in snaring every species of bird and animal, and the fishes of the streams.