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them doing, to the fencing of their runs, to irrigation 

 and the growth of grain, and to improved methods 

 of treating their wool, wine, and tobacco. 



The second great deterrent to Cape progress, and 

 especially to its colonization and development, has 

 been the constant succession of native wars that, 

 until 1878, vexed the Eastern frontier. But it 

 may be safely asserted that Kaffir wars are now 

 things of the past. The Transkeian territories have 

 been annexed to the Colony ; the natives have 

 settled down to the cultivation of their lands ; 

 and if they are properly looked after, and not 

 suffered to be ruined in body and purse by the 

 drink traffic, they will, while themselves greatly 

 benefiting, indirectly prove a source of wealth 

 to the Colony and the Mother Country. This 

 deterrent, then, of Kaffir troubles may be considered 

 as entirely removed, and it may be taken for granted 

 that as vast numbers of natives have been for years 

 past attracted to the diamond-fields by the demand 

 for labour, as they have been thereby enriched and 

 partly civilised by contract with Europeans, so the 

 Kaffirs will, when labour markets are opened up by 

 new industries, mining and otherwise, by irrigation 

 and increased cultivation, tobacco manufacture and 

 the like, cast off" their ancient laziness, and enter 

 in large numbers into the service of the colonists. 

 Hitherto they have only been utilized as herds and 

 grooms. In the Western province the Hottentots 

 perform most of the work in the vineyards and 

 corn-fields, but they are as a race, unhappily, 

 almost completely ruined by the old custom, still 

 obtaining among the Dutch farmers, of paying them 

 partly in cheap and deleterious wines and spirits. 



