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abundantly flocked with game of all kinds, 
they may, by adding to all thefe advantages 
thofe of cultivating the earth, and breeding 
flocks, procure to themfelves, from the firft 
hand, every refource arifmg from barter ; and 
that, by means of the harbours and roads 
which are to be found in great plenty on the 
coafts of their territories, it is in their power 
to bring the induftry of other nations amongft 
them, to extend their population, to increafe 
their riches, and to have every convenience 
that an extenfive foreign trade can fupply. 
The government at the Cape are already 
fully fenfible of the importance of thefe re- 
fiedions ; and this perhaps is one of the 
jufteft caufes of their apparent fupinenefs 
W'ith refped to the planters. They know the 
genius and character of thefe robuft people, 
almoft all educated in the midft of the woods; 
and they were more cautious in their condu£t 
towards them during my refidence at the Cape, 
becaufe they thought the fate of the whole 
town depended upon their powerful afhftance, 
had the Englifh in the war of 1781 attempt- 
ed to make a defcent there, as they expe£ted, 
The following anecdote will fhew how far 
they were to be depended on : — An alarm 
having 'r 
