286 SUCCESSFUL COLONISTS. [1698. 



Our Refugees made the Hottentots work in their Harvests, 

 Vintages, and whatever else they please, for a little Bread 

 or Tobacco. As they have leave to Hunt, their Victuals 

 cost tliem little or nothing. Hardly any thing is scarce 

 among them but Wood, and that is of no great Consequence, 

 because the Climate being Hot, they have only occasion for 

 it for the Kitchin. For the same reason they are put to no 

 great expense for Cloaths, the slightest and meanest Stuffs 

 being good enough. They buy, moreover, a great many 

 things at very cheap rates of the Sailors, who touch at the 

 Cape from all quarters of the World. 'Tis true, to sell their 

 Commodities they must carry them to the Cape, which as I 

 have already told you, is about ten Leagues from the Colony ; 

 but this Inconvenience is not over great, because the way is 

 good and their Oxen will easily travel it in a day. 



Every one must easily conceive there are no beginnings 

 without Difficulties, and our honest Countrymen did not 

 meet with a few at first, but then they were charitably 

 reliev'd, as I have already observ'd, and at length God was 

 pleas'd so to bless their Labours, that they are at present 

 perfectly at ease, nay, some of them are become very 

 Eich. 



In some parts of the Cape the Landskips are wonderful 

 fine, especially where our new Inhabitants were settled, and 

 the Air is admirably good. Fine and large Rivulets con- 

 tribute to the fertility of the Soil, which furnishes Wine in 

 abundance, with all sorus of Corn. The little Hills are 

 cover'd with Vines, expos'd to the best Sun, and shelter'd 



sion qui se presentoit alors de I'arriuee, & croy que le nom du Peru a 

 este ainsi trouue, & mis en vsage : car nous tenons icy que le nom aeste 

 donne a toute ceste terre du Peru, a cause d'vn fleuue ainsi appelle par 

 les naturels du pais, auquel les Espagnols arriuereut quand lis firent la 

 premiere descouuerte. Et de la nous disons que les mesmes Indiens 

 naturels du Peru ignorent, & ne se seruent aucunement de ce nom & 

 appellation, pour signifier leur terre." (Hisioire Natvrelle et Morale ties 

 /rules, par Joseph Acosta, IGlli, liv. i, p. 25.) 



