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plaint ; or that the two families, emboldened 
By the fuccefs of their iniquity, would defift in 
confequence of my remonilrances ? 
Under thefe circumftance.^, I could do no- 
thing but endeavour to confole the horde : that 
is, exhort it to take patience, and repeat all 
thofe common-place topics of prudence and re- 
fignation, of which he who hears them thinks as 
little as the perfon by whom they are uttered. 
To infert in my travels the principal parti- 
culars of this affair, I conceive to be my duty ; 
and my reafons for doing fo will doubdefs 
be refpefted. My fecond journey will reach 
Holland, as my Si 11 has done. Like the firft, 
it will probably be read by fome of the direc- 
tors of the company ; and perhaps meafures 
will be taken to rernove abufes with which they 
were before unacquainted, and which mofl af^ 
furedly they have no defire to countenance. 
When I arrived at Amfterdam, on my 
return to Europe, happening to mention to 
one of them that fmall money was wanting 
" at the Cape, and that the internal trade of the 
colony was injured by this want, the diredory 
ordered, in confequence, a coinage, as I have 
faid elfewhere, of different frnall filver pieces, 
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