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The fubfiftence for thefe is derived from the intereft of a fund 
eftabUflied out of the church fuperfluities, from alms, donations, 
and collections made after divine fervice, and not from any tax 
laid upon the public. Except, indeed, a few colonial alTeiT- 
ments for the repairs of the ftreets and public works, the inha- 
bitants of the Cape have little drawback on their profits or the 
produce of their labour. The luxury of a carriage and horfes, 
which in England is attended with an enormous expence, is 
kept up here for a trifle after the firft coil. Thofe in the town 
that are ufed only for fhort excurfions, or for taking the air^ 
are open, and calculated for four or fix perfons. For making 
journies they have a kind of light waggon covered with fail- 
cloth, and fufficiently large to hold a whole family with clothes 
and provifions for feveral days. The coachman is generally 
one of thofe people known in the colony by the name of Baf- 
taards^ being a mixed breed between a Hottentot woman and 
European man, or a Hottentot woman and a flave. They make 
moil excellent drivers, and think nothing of turning fhort cor- 
ners, or of galloping through narrow avenues, with eight in 
hand. The ladies feldom take the exercife of riding on horfe- 
back, that exercife being confidered as too fatiguing. They 
generally confine themfelves to the houfe during the day, 
and walk the Mall in the public garden in the cool of the 
evening. 
It has been the remark of moft travellers that the ladies of 
the Cape are pretty, lively, and good-humoured ; poiTeffing 
little of that phlegmatic temper which is a principal trait in the 
national charader of the Dutch. The difference in the manners 
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