I0<> VOYAGE IN SEARCH 



Jflc of France, on my return from the South Sea, 

 that the naturalifts, Mace, and Aubert Petit 

 Thouars, had teen them thrown alide in a garret 

 in this Agent's houfe, a long time after our de- 

 parture from the Cape, although there had oo 

 curred many opportunities of which he might 

 have availed himfelf, had he been difpofed to be 

 faithful to his engagements. 



The Cape of Good Hope is one of the parts 

 of the globe which mod defcrves to fix the at- 

 tention of a commercial people. From its fitua- 

 tion, it forms an almoft neceflary refrefhing- 

 place for fhips bound to the Eait Indies. Tlie 

 proviiions which it furnifhes are abundant ; but 

 the prohibitory regulations daily diminifh tlie 

 number of fhips, which endeavour to arrive at 

 their place of deitination without touching at 

 this roadltead : others go to St. Helena, where 

 they can be victualled at a cheaper rate. 



The mereantile fpirit of the Dutch Eaft India 

 Company has often induced them to feign a 

 it nareity at the Cape, in order to enhance 

 the price of proviiions. The cultivators are not 

 allowed to contrael direclly with foreigners for 

 the produce of their culture, but arc obliged to 

 tlifpofe of them to the Company, .who often give 

 id not a fourth of the price at which they 

 r< f< rve the right to fell them. 



The opprdlion exercifed by the upper agents 



towards 



