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colony. I understood, however, that a few months before we 
evacuated the Cape, a small herd of this beautiful animal had 
again made its appearance among the wooded hills behind 
Sweet Milk's V alley, where, instead of suffering them to remain 
unmolested, at least for some time, that their numbers might 
increase, the farmers were lying in wait for their destruction. 
Close to this river is the establishment of the Hernhtiters or 
Moravian missionaries, which I had occasion to notice on a 
former journey. These worthy men, by the protection af- 
forded them under the British government, and by its libera- 
lity, through General Dundas, in enabling them to enlarge 
their territory, had considerably extended their society of 
Hottentots ; whom they not only instructed in the principles 
of the Christian religion, but by example, as well as pre- 
cept, taught to feel, that their value in society was pro- 
portioned to the benefits they were able to render to the 
community by useful labor and the example of good con- 
duct. 
These men have clearly shewn to the world, by the effects 
of this institution, that there is not among savages, in general, 
that invincible aversion to labor which some have been in- 
clined to suppose. Those, indeed, whose daily subsistence 
depends on the chace, may contract a disposition to rambling 
and to a frequent change of place, but the precarious supply 
of food obtained by hunting is not the reward of sluggish in- 
dolence, but of toil, of lassitude, and anxiety. The fewer the 
wants that man has to gratify, the less inclination will he feel 
to exert his corporeal powers. In a mere savage state, if these 
