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mode in the colony of making a fortune fo 
rapidly as he wiChed, and having heard of the 
acquifitions that had been made among the NU 
miquas by certain individuals, took it into his 
bead to vi(it them in like manner ; flattering 
himfelf, that in their country he ftiould meet; 
with what he had in vain fought for at home, 
and never once dreaming that wherever adti- 
vity, induftry, and good fenfe are, qualities to 
which he appeared to have no claim, there alfa 
fortune is to be found and no where elfe. 
The won'ders of the Nimiqua land he had 
long heard of, and he had often been advifed 
to fettle in this pretended paradife, where all 
the wealth of the globe, and all its moft valu- 
able produdtions, awaited his comiug. 
Several, it is true, while they confirmed the 
fables that prevailed refpeding the wealth of 
* this country, fo abundant in mines of gold, 
had terrified him at the fame time by the nu- 
merous obftacles which they told him he 
would have to contend with. They fpoke of 
Bofhmen, tigers, lions, and wild beafts of 
every kind ; and thefe, they faid, vyere what 
prevented the planters from fettling there. 
For a time, thef^ fabulous terrors had ren- 
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