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facts respecting the Kalmuck Tartars, who live in the imme- 
diate vicinity of the Moravian settlement at Sarepta, but have 
not joined it. Another friend, who lately arrived from Bo- 
tany Bay, asserted, that the natives living in the vicinity of 
Port Jackson are in a similar state, though they have wit- 
nessed the comforts of civilized life for nearly forty years. 
The Hottentots in the colony of the Cape, exhibit another in- 
stance 6f this fact. After living more than a century among 
the Dutch inhabitants, without instruction, this untutored 
race were found by Vailant and Barrow, when they travelled in 
that country, and also by the Missionaries on their first arrival, 
much in the same state in which they had been, when visited 
by Vasco de Gama. 
Several Hottentots belonging to Bethelsdorp, who after being 
some years in the Cape regiment, and consequently obliged to 
attend to cleanliness, nevertheless, on their discharge from the 
regiment, and return to the settlement, almost immediately re- 
lapsed into their old habits ; these people made profession of 
Christianity. Nor is England destitute of evidence in sup- 
port of this fact : the miners near Bristol and those in Corn- 
wall were little more civilized, fifty years ago, than the wild 
Bushmen, though surrounded by enlightened society. What, 
it may be demanded, has brought them to their present state of 
order and civilization? The answer must be — the prevalence of 
religious knowledge obtained by the blessing of God upon the ar- 
duous, but patient and persevering labours of the Ministers of 
the Gospel. 
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