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great an extent as could be reasonably expected in the time, 
and that far greater degrees of cultivation may be confidently 
looked for. Civilization is much slower in its progress than 
the inexperienced are inclined to suppose. It is easy to say, 
might not this and the other thing be introduced among the 
uncivilized, but many are the obstacles which cannot be 
foreseen by people unaccustomed to intercourse with a rude 
and undisciplined race. It is really cruel for a writer thus 
wantonly, and on mere tea-table authority, to traduce the 
character of those worthy and laborious men who have re- 
linquished the comforts of European life, for the purpose of 
instructing savages. Her insinuations about bribing by the 
brandy bottle are as false as they are base nor is she better 
informed concerning the method pursued by the Moravian 
Missionaries — they do not first civilize in order to christianize, 
as she suggests; they have uniformly connected them toge- 
ther, and have found that by the preaching of the cross of 
Christ, accompanied by example and other practical re- 
commendations of Christianity, many of their disciples have 
been gradually improved, and led to lay aside their savage 
manners, and to become in every sense, new creatures." 
The Moravians have only two missionary stations in South 
Africa, and both these in the vicinity of Cape-town, while 
the Missionary Society have upwards of twelve, and many 
of these very remote; of course the former have all kinds of 
supplies at hand, and can with much greater facility hold 
communications with their friends in England and at the 
Cape; this no doubt gives them a peculiar advantage, which 
I am far from regretting. 
• A person in Cape-town complaining to me of the wretchedness of 
Bethelsdorp, said that on his arrival there, though much fatigued by his 
journey, he could not procure one glass of spirits in the whole settlement. 
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