1698.] HOTTENTOTS. 285 



transported tbitlier without any Charge, and upon their 

 Arrival had as much Land assigned them as they could 

 Manure. They were likewise furnished with Husbandry 

 Tools, Victuals and Cloaths, without being obliged to pay 

 any yearly Tribute or Interest, till such time as they should 

 be in a condition to reimburse their Benefactors. There 

 was also a considerable Collection made for them at Batavia^ 

 which Sura was remitted to them proportionably to their 

 Occasions. They took up their Provisions on the prices 

 before mentioned, which are highly reasonable considering 

 the Place : Besides it was a very advantageous thing for 

 them that Slaves were not dear. ]\Ioreover, they have 

 considerable services done them by the Natives of that 

 Province, whom the Hollanders call Hottentots, because they 

 often hear them pronounce that word. For the same reason 

 the Spaniards gave the name of PeriL to that part of the 

 World which they had invaded."-^ 



stock their Land the Dutch Governor gives them Credit, 'till such time 

 as they are able to repay him. Notwithstanding this Encouragement, 

 they have a great hardship upon them, which is that they must sell 

 their goods to the Governor, and at his price ; so that he runs away 

 with most of the profit arising by their Labour and Industry : for the 

 Governor buys at very low rates and sells to the ships that come in as 

 dear as he pleases ; and no man can sell anything to strangers without 

 the Council's leave. Abundance of the Planters are French Refugees 

 who have penetrated almost 100 miles up the country." (^ New Voyage 

 to the East Indies, hy Capt. William Symson, 1715, p. 217.) 



1 Shortly after tlie Huguenot Refugees arrived in South Africa the 

 board of deacons of Batavia sent a sum of money equal to twelve 

 hundred English sovereigns to be distributed among them, according to 

 their needs. The money was distributed in April 1690, and a copy of 

 the list of distribution is in the archives of the Hague. It forms almost 

 a complete list of the Huguenots who settled in South Africa at this 

 period. {Cajje Quarterly Review^ April 1882.) 



'^ •' In orig. : " Et il y a beaucoup d'apparence que ce fut de la meme 

 maniere que le pain celeste que Dieu donna autrefois ^ son Peuple fut 

 appelle Man, ou Manne (Exod. xvi, 17), soit dit en passant," omitted by 

 translator. "L'on a eu de coustumeordinairement en ces descouuertures 

 du nouueau monde, de donnernom auxterres & ports de mer, selon I'occa- 



