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nlng away from his fliip, he gets into a boor's family and 
marries. He begins the world with nothing, the ufual pradice 
being that of the wife's friends giving him a certain number of 
cattle and fneep to manage, half the yearly produce of which 
he is to reftore to the owner, as intereft for the capital placed 
in his hands. He has moft of the neceflaries of life, except 
clothing, within himfelf ; his work is done by Hottentots, 
which coft him nothing but meat, tobacco, and fkins for their 
clothing. His houfe and his furniture, fuch as they are, he 
makes himfelf ; and he has no occafion for implements of huf- 
bandry. The firft luxury he purchafes is a waggon, which, 
indeed, the wandering life he ufually leads at fetting out in the 
world, makes as neceffary as a hut j and frequently ferves all the 
purpofes of one. A mufquet and a fmall quantity of powder and 
lead will procure him as much game as his whole family caa 
confume. The fpring boh are fo plentiful on the borders of the 
colony, and fo eafily got at, that a farmer fends out his Hot- 
tentot to kill a couple of thefe deer with as much certainty as if 
he fent him among his flock of fheep. In a word, an African 
peafant of the loweft condition never knows want ; and if he 
does not rife into affluence, the fault muft be entirely his own. 
Revenues of Government. 
From what has already been ftated, in the laft fe£tion, it will 
appear, that the public burthens are not of that nature as to fur- 
nifh any fubje£t of complaint. In fa*^:, the proportion of pro- 
duce paid by the colonifts for their prctedion is lefs than in 
moft 
