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nations, which, driven from their courfe by 
contrary winds, and unable to enter Tabic Bay, 
might take fhelter in that of Saldanha, certain 
of finding there the refrefhments neceffiiryto 
enable them to continue their voyage. 
The wifli which I here form for the con- 
veniency of the planters, and the benefit of na- 
vigators in general, will doubtlefs long remain 
unaccompliflied : for has the commercial po- 
licy of privileged companies ever been known to 
unite their private intereft to the intereft of the 
public, when that ardent thirft of gold, which 
rules fo powerfully the merchants of all nations, 
comm.ands them, in fo imperious a manner^ 
to oppofcjfrom miftaken felfiih motives, every 
thing that does not tend to increafe the advan- 
tages which their greedy avarice leads them to 
expe6i ? It is alfo for another reafon fcarcely to 
be expeded that the Eafi India company will 
foon carry into execution either the eftabliih- 
ment in queftion, or thofe I have mentioned 
refpeding the bays of the delightful country 
of Auteniqua, however evident it may appear 
that they would promote the good and pro- 
fperity of the colonies ; fince, from the fear it 
is continually under that the captains in its 
fervice 
