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last; and had a multitude of those people collected under 

 his charge, when the restoration of the Colony to its ancient 

 masters threw every thing again into confusion. The boors, 

 who detested the institution as a scheme to inveigle the 

 Hottentots from their service, lost no time in representing the 

 matter to Governor Jansens, and that in so obnoxious a light, 

 that Vanderkemp was recalled to Capetown as a partizan of 

 the English, and detained there, as a prisoner at large, until 

 the Colony returned once more into our possession. On 

 this auspicious event, he was remanded to his charge with 

 renewed promises of protection ; where, it is to be hoped, 

 he will finally succeed in an undertaking the most gratifying 

 to a benevolent mind, alleviating the miseries of an oppressed 

 and degraded race. 



" Still, however, a sort of jealousy appears to exist between 

 Vanderkemp and the Government. The spot on which the 

 institution has been established is confessedly the least 

 proper that could be selected for the purpose. Barren, 

 destitute of wood, and adapted solely for pasturage, it affords 

 no scope for the exertion of industry, and the people are 

 lost in a hopeless state of idleness. Both parties are agreed 

 on this capital defect, and on the propriety of removing the 

 establishment to a more eligible spot ; but the difficulty of 

 fixing on this spot has hitherto frustrated their endeavours. 

 Vanderkemp, whose views are still directed tow^ards the 

 conversion of the Caffres, is desirous to have the institution 

 transferred to the banks of the Sunday River, so as to get 

 within call of his old friend King Gaika; but Government, 

 eyeing the matter in a jiolitical light, wish to avoid any 

 close approximation of the Hottentots with the Caffres, as 

 tending eventually to disturb the peace of the Colony, and 

 would have it, on that account, removed nearer the capital. 

 What the arguments are that sustain the weaker against the 

 stronger side, I have not learned ; but thus the business at 

 present rests, in verification of the proverb. 



" The Hottentots of the institution were constantly about 

 us, visiting their friends of the Cape regiment. These 

 people are passionately fond of riding; and, as the keeping 



