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well as his mechanical talents, equal to those of the Europsean, 

 who has so long oppressed him, under the plea of his being 

 an inferior animal. That the Hottentot is not by nature de- 

 ficient in mechanical talents, any one may be convinced, who 

 will visit this establishment ; and his intellectual capacity is 

 placed equally beyond dispute by the rapid progress of the 

 rising generation in the elementary branches of learning. 

 The school is a recent institution, commenced under the 

 patronage of the late Governor, Sir John Craddock. The 

 system of instruction followed is that of Joseph Lancaster. 

 Little did that ingenious quaker imagine that his invention, 

 opposed as it was by the united ignorance, prejudice, and 

 bigotry of England, should within so short a time penetrate 

 to the farthest extremity of Africa; and shed its benignant 

 light on the most wretched portion of the human race. 



" On the motives that dictated the establishment of the 

 Moravian Mission, and the plan on which it has hitherto 

 been conducted, there can be but one opinion; both are 

 entitled to unqualified approbation ; yet so unpropitious are 

 the circumstances connected with it, that there is reason to 

 apprehend that it will do more harm than good, and aggra- 

 vate the misery it was its object to lighten. The population 

 of the Colony consists of two races of people ; the white, or 

 descendants of Europaeans, and the black, or Hottentots, 

 who are parcelled out among the former, and serve them in 

 the capacity of menials. Thinly scattered over a prodigious 

 extent of territory, and repelled, by natural difficulties, 

 but much more by positive enactments, beyond the reach of 

 justice, the distant Colonists live in a state of independence, 

 over which the government has no eifective control. Hence 

 they have usurped full authority over the rights, and not 

 unfrequently over the lives of their dependents; and the 

 capricious exercise of it, we can easily imagine, has been the 

 source of no small portion of misery to the latter. Laws 

 have been enacted from time to time, with a view to curb 

 this abuse ; but laws issued v/ithout the power of enforce- 

 ment, are more likely to increase than to restrain abuse, 

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