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country fliould be fuffered to remain almoft a 
defert ; and that for want of hands and cul- 
tivation it fhould lofe the benefit of every 
thing that nature has done for its fecundity. 
I am perfuaded that fugar canes, cotton and 
indigo, would grow extremely well in the ' 
diftrid: of the Twenty-four-Rivers. 
My hoft, before I quitted him, begged me 
to accept a few bottles of lemon juice, which I 
found afterwards of very great fervice ; and 
at the fame time requefted that, on my return, 
I would bring him back a male and a female 
goat from the country of Nimiqua. He had 
heard this fpecies of goat highly extolled ; and 
it is indeed the moft beautiful I have any where 
feen. His two fons made me promife alfo to 
fell to each of them one of my fufees. They 
expeded that, when my journey was finifhed, 
I (hould pafs that way again to the Cape, 
and were not aware that my intention was 
to return thither no more. On my depar- 
ture, the family faluted me with a difcharge 
of fire-arms, which I was obliged to return ; 
and the cafe was the fame at every other planta- 
tion that I pafied. All the inhabitants with- 
out exception ran with the utmoft eagernefs 
to 
