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ment, but intelligent and lively in converfation, zealous in the 
caufe of their miffion, but free from bigotry or enthufiafm. 
Every thing about the place partook of that neatnefs and fim- 
plicity which were the ftrongeft features in the outline of their 
charader. The church they had conflru£ted was a plain neat 
building ; their mill for grinding corn was fuperior to any in the 
colony J their garden was in high order, and produced abundance 
of vegetables for the ufe of the table. Almoft every thing that 
had been done was by the labor of their own hands. Agreeably 
to the rules of the fociety, of which they were members, each 
had learned fome ufeful profeffion. One was well fl^illed in 
every branch of fmith's work, the fecond was a Ihoemaker, and 
the third a taylor. 
Thefe miffionaries have fucceeded in bringing together into 
one fociety, more than fix hundred Hottentots, and their 
numbers are daily encreafmg. Thefe live in fmall huts difperfed 
over the valley, to each of which was a patch of ground for 
raifing vegetables. Thofe who had firft joined the fociety had 
the choicefl fituations at the upper end of the valley, near the 
church, and their houfes and gardens were very neat and 
comfortable ; numbers of the poor in England not fo good, and 
few better. Thofe Hottentots who chofe to learn their refped:- 
ive trades, were paid for their labor as foon as they could earn 
wages. Some hired themfelves out by the week, month, or 
year, to the neighbouring peafantry ; others made mats and 
brooms for fale : fome bred poultry, and others found means to 
fubfift by their cattle, fheep, and horfes. Many of the women 
and children of foldiers, belonging to the Hottentot corps, refide 
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