SOUTHERN AFRICA, 397 
Amount of outgoings brought over R. D. 3212 5 
Returns, 
100 Leggers of wine brought to market a 30 3000 
20 Ditto of brandy ditto ^3 50 - - 1000 
The wine and brandy fold to the country 
boors, with the fruit and poultry brought 
to the Cape market, are more than fufficient 
to balance every other contingent and ex- 
traordinary expence. ' - 
Amount of returns 4000 4000 
Balance in favour of the farmer R. D. 787 3 
or ^, 157 8 3 
which fum may be confidered as a net annual profit, after 
every charge on the farm and on houfekeeping has been de- 
frayed. 
The payment of an eftate purchafed is made eafy to the pur- 
chafer. The cuftomary conditions are to pay by three inftal- 
ments, one-third ready money, one-third in one year, and the 
remaining third at the end of the fecond year j and the latter 
two- thirds bear no intereft. And even the firft inftalment he 
can borrow of Government, through the loan bank, by giving 
the eftate as a mortgage and two fufficient fecurities. So that 
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