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selves mutually dependent on, and mutually beneficial 

 to, each other. With a view to this the missionaries 

 at Kuruman got permission from the Government for 

 a trader to reside at the station, and a considerable 

 trade has been the result ; the trader himself has become 

 rich enough to retire with a competence. Those laws 

 which still prevent free commercial intercourse among the 

 civilized nations seem to be nothing else but the remains 

 of our own heathenism. My own observations on this 

 subject make me extremely desirous to promote the pre- 

 paration of the raw materials of European manufactures in 

 Africa, for by that means we may not only put a stop to 

 the slave-trade, but introduce the negro family into the 

 body corporate of nations, no one member of which can 

 suffer without the others suffering with it. Success in this, 

 in both Eastern and Western Africa, would lead, in the 

 course of time, to a much larger diffusion of the blessings 

 of civilization than efforts exclusively spiritual and edu- 

 cational confined to any one small tribe. These, however, 

 it would of course be extremely desirable to carry on at the 

 same time at large central and healthy stations, for neither 

 civilization nor Christianity can be promoted alone. In 

 fact, they are inseparable. 



CHAPTER II. 



Another adverse influence with which the mission had to 

 contend was the vicinity of the Boers of the Cashan 

 Mountains, otherwise named " Magaliesberg." These are 

 not to be confounded with the Cape colonists, who some- 

 times pass by the name. The word Boer simply means 

 " farmer," and is not synonymous with our word boor. 

 Indeed, to the Boers generally the latter term would be 

 quite inappropriate, for they are a sober, industrious, and 

 most hospitable body of peasantry. Those, however, 

 who have fled from English law on various pretexts, and 

 have been joined by English deserters, and every other 

 variety of bad character in their distant localities, are 

 unfortunately of a very different stamp. The great 



