SOUTHERN AFRICA. 309 
ments, to defray the charges of repairs and other neceflarieSj or 
for hard money to carry to India or China. 
As it is not material to ftate the exad amount of each kind of 
goods imported, I lhall fubjoln an abftradl account of the whole 
importation into the Cape by Britifh or foreign bottoms, from 
Europe, Afia, and America, in the courfe of four years, including 
the value of the prize goods brought in,' and of the flaves im- 
ported within the fame period. 
Years. 
Britifli gocdt 
on Britilh 
bottoms, 
duty fre^. 
India '^oods 
on Hriiifh 
bottoms, 
5 per cent 
duty. 
Eurbpean 
prize 
goods, 5 per 
cent. duty. 
Indian 
prize 
gor ds, 
10 per 
cent. duty. 
Prize 
flaves 
and 
I'thers 
import- 
ed by 
Britifli 
mer- 
chants. 
Total pro- 
duce import- 
ed in Britifli 
bottoms. 
European 
and Ame- 
rican goods 
on foreign 
bottoms, 
10 percent, 
duty. 
Indian 
goods on 
foreign 
bottoms, 
10 per cent. 
Total pro- 
duce im- 
ported in 
foreign 
bottoms. 
1799 
1800 
1 80 1 
1H02 
Rd. Jk. 
674,0^9 ( 
474,706 
587/ 2 3 > 
;32,^66 4 
Rd. (k. 
104,124 0 
2. 2,446 0 
2QO, 1 J 7 0 
455.397 4 
Rd. Jk. 
20,6tj 5 
»7,797 0 
^68,115 0 
Sk3,7ii8 2 
Rd. jk. 
100,487 c 
45>335 ^ 
129,64-.. f 
i30,7x t 
Rd. 
245,600 
J 84,000 
7 7 r ,200 
198,205 
Rd. Jh. 
1,144,844 3 
934,284 0 
',:"N46,4o8 2 
1,4 1 0,4-' S 0 
Rd. Jk 
118,244 0 
51,-^58 c 
i3''''394 5 
1.42,684 6 
Rd. Jk. 
r)4,2i9 6 
109,490 0 
3>337 2 
15,891 7 
Rd. Jk. 
182,463 6 
160,-48 0 
I -,9.731 7 
'58.577 5 
in 4 years 
2,268,105 6 
1,062,084 4 
700,633 7406,185 4 
899,0051 
15,336,014 5 
448,581 31192,939 7 
541,521 2 
Total importation, Rix dollars 5,977,535 7 Sk. 
or ^. 1,195,507 3 6 Currency. 
It will naturally be demanded how, or in what manner, has 
the colony contrived to pay this apparent enormous balance of 
imports over the produce exported, efpecially when it is known 
that moft of the European articles were fold at an advance of 
from 50 to 100 per cent, on the invoice prices, which, indeed, 
could not well be otherwife, confidering the high premium on 
bills, and the fmall quantity of colonial produce to be had for 
remit- 
