SOUTHERN AFRICA, 
defcription of the moral character of this people, 
fuch high and refpedable authority. 
None felt more fmcere regret and uneafmefs at that article in 
the treaty of peace, which ceded the Cape to its former 
owners, than thefe worthy miflionaries. From the malignant 
fpirit of the boors, they had every thing to apprehend. The 
friends of humanity, however, will rejoice to learn, that this 
afylum for an innocent and opprelfed race of men continues to 
receive the countenance and protedion of the prefent govern- 
ment ; the two leading members of which appear to be aduated 
by views an-d fentiments very dilferent from thofe of the ma- 
jority of the people, over which they are appointed to rule. 
It is obvious, indeed, to every man of common underftanding, 
that an inftitution fo encouraged cannot fail to prove of infinite 
advantage to a colony where ufeful labour is fo much wanted. 
If any example w^re capable of roufmg the fluggifh fettlers, 
that of fix hundred people being fubfifted on the fame fpace of 
ground, which every individual family among them occupies, 
for they had nothing more till very lately than a common Joan 
farm of three miles in diameter, would be fufficient to ftimulate 
them to habits of induftry. 
Other miflionaries, but of different focieties, have lately pro- 
ceeded to very diftant parts of the colony, and fome even much 
beyond it, both among the Kaffers to the eaftward, and the 
Bosjefman Hottentots to the northward. The latter they re- 
prefent as a docile and tradable people, of innocent manners, 
and grateful to their benefadors beyond expreffion ; but the 
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