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which they have been accustomed 

 in the service of the colonists, by 

 assisting in the harvest, for example, 

 by attending upon their cattle, or 

 by working at their buildings. The 

 women and children are left behind, 

 when they go out to work in this 

 way, a burthen upon the commu- 

 nity, and are not, without difficulty, 

 incited to gain a trifle, by working 

 in the gardens of the Brethren, or 

 of their more substantial fellow- 

 countrymen. Those who are bap- 

 tized are all Bastards, since among 

 the pure Hottentots exhortation 

 alone cannot produce a sufficient 

 effect to induce them to throw aside 

 their careless and indolent ways. 



How much superior is such an 

 institution to those that have been 

 established in other parts of 

 Southern Africa, by English and 

 Dutch missionaries. While the 

 Herrenhuters, wherever they have 

 gone, have excited universal re- 

 spect, and have endeavoured to 

 inspire a spirit of industry, with a 

 sense of true religion, while they 

 have sought to make the savages 

 men before they thought of making 

 them Christians, the missionaries 

 above-mentioned, with i'ew excep- 

 tions, have shown themselves idle 

 vagabonds, or senseless fanatics, 

 beginning their task of conversion 



by teaching the doctrine of the Tri- 

 nity, and baptizing their disciples, 

 and have concerned themselves 

 little with seeking to give them 

 habits of industry, to inspire them 

 with the feelings of men : they 

 have commenced with the super- 

 structure, without thinking of lay- 

 ing the proper foundation by which 

 it was to be supported. As all the 

 communities of Brethren over the 

 whole earth at the same hour, 

 morning and evening, are united 

 in singing the hymn appointed for 

 that day, so are they all inspired 

 with an equal ardour in seeking to 

 arrive at the same goal. It is not 

 among them single men that 

 labour ; it is the united strength of 

 many thousands working together, 

 and the fruit of their diligence 

 and savings goes all into the com- 

 mon stock ; the remotest branch is 

 supported and nourished from the 

 trunk. According to the testi- 

 mony of the Brethren here, the 

 little branch of which they have 

 the care, notwithstanding the fa- 

 vours shown it on the part of the 

 government, has received in the 

 eleven years that have elapsed 

 since its establishment, no less than 

 25,000 dollars from Europe, and 

 the yearly expences seem rather 

 to increase than diminish. 



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