282 FKENX'II PltOTESTANTS. [1698. 



to tlie muzzle of a (Un\ with a brass Wire, and the other 

 end being- fasten'd to the Trigg, as soon as the Beast seizes 

 the Bait the Gun goes of, and either kills or wounds him. 



Bread here is not worth a Penny a pound, although the 

 Bakers are oblig'd to buy all the Corn of the Company in 

 like manner as they are their Wine, their Beef, their Mutton, 

 and their Tobacco. The Company for three Crowns gives 

 the Inhabitants a measure of Corn, that weighs a hundred 

 and four-score Pounds. The Price of Beef and jMutton is 

 setled at two pence a Pound,^ and Tobacco at forty Pence. 

 Soap is sold at eighteen pence a Pound, and Aqua-vitm at a 

 hundred Pence the Mingle. Beer is exceeding cheap. 



The Slaves, all Negro's, are worth between three-score and 

 four-score Crowns a Head, according to the Age and Con- 

 dition of the Beast. The Crown is worth eight SJdlling as 

 in Holland, and the Skilling six Sous. The Pound is of 

 sixteen Ounces. The least piece of Money at the Caj^c is a 

 Sons, as at Bateivia. 



The Colony I have been speaking of, which is about ten 

 Leagues from the Cape, has been frequently augmented, and 

 is almost every day, by a considerable number of French 

 Protestants. The Company maintains a Minister and Peader 

 for them, and affords them every day some fresh Tokens of 

 their Eespect.'^ 



whun the colonists were mucli infested by wild beasts, a certain pre- 

 mium was paid to every one who killed or caught any of these animals. 

 At first, government paid sixteen rix-doUars for a lion and ten gilders 

 for a tiger, after which the sum was diminished to ten rix-dollars for a 

 lion's and six gilders for a tiger's skin. But when these animals were 

 so far extirpated that seldom any were to be seen, the premium was 

 discontinued, excepting in case they were brought alive to the Cape, 

 which is hardly practicable. But the tax remained in force, and assumed 

 the nature of a permanent impost." (Wilcocke, Stavorinnii' Voyage, iii, 

 p. 460.) 



' By 1714, the price of meat had risen to o^d. a pound. (Theal, L c, 

 p. 74.) 



'■^ The Rev. Pierre Simond (of Dauphine), minister of the Refugee 



