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BETHELSDORP. 
turers, stocking-makers, taylors, brick-makers, thalchers, 
coopers, and lime-burners, likewise an auctioneer and 
a miller. That these eighteen trades exist at Bethels- 
dorp, I have no doubt; but should a man think of a 
trade at Bethelsdorp as he thinks of a trade in Eng- 
land, he would say there are only carpenters, smiths, 
farmers and thatchers ; but that would be as ridiculous, 
as if a person going to a friend s house to see his first 
born son, on the day of his birth, should expect to find 
a man six feet high, and go away disappointed, tell- 
ing all the w^orld that he saw no son, but only a little 
creature a span long. People forget that arts among 
Hottentots are only in their infancy. Great as trades 
are now in England, time was when they were as in^ 
considerable as now at Bethelsdorp. 
I found also a fund maintained by the members of 
the Institution for the support of the poor and sick, 
which at present amounts to two hundred and fifty 
rix dollars. Each rix dollar is four shillings currency. 
The people have also offered to build an asylum for 
their reception. 
There is another fund, called the common fund, for 
defiraying expenses incurred for promoting the general 
prosperity of the Institution, which amounts to one 
hundred and thirty dollars, and about thirty head of 
cattle. The original stock of these cattle were pre- 
sented to the Institution by General Dundas, when 
he was governor of the Cape; and they have multi* 
plied to the above number. 
