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brought to the market at Plettenberg's Bay, where the great 
plenty of timber might alfo lead to a very extenfive commerce 
and fiirnifli employment for numbers of this race of natives, 
who require only proper encouragement to become valuable 
members of fociety. An eftablilhment of Moravian miffionaries 
at this bay would prove of infinite benefit to the colony. It 
would be difficult to perfuade the boor of this, and nothing 
would convince him of the truth of it, but the circumftance of 
his being able to procure as good a waggon for 150 or 200 rix 
dollars as he muft now purchafe at the rate of 400 dollars in 
Cape Town. 
It would be no fmall advantage to the boors, who dwell fome 
hundred miles from the fea-coaft, to carry back in their wag- 
gons a quantity of faked fifli, which might be prepared to any 
extent at all the bays ; this article would not only furnifh them 
with an agreeable variety to their prefent unremitting confump- 
tion of flefli meat three times a day, but would ferve alfo, ac- 
cording to their own ideas, as a corrective to the fuperabundance 
of bile which the exclufive ufe of butchers' meat is fuppofed 
to engender. To cultivate the fifheries on the coaft of Africa 
would afford the means of employment and an ample fource of 
provifion for a great number of Hottentot families. 
At MofTel Bay, befides the fifheries, there are two articles, 
the natural produce of the country, in the colledion and pre- 
paration of which the Hottentots might very advantageoufly be 
employed, both to tbemfelves and to the community. Thefe 
are 
