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reafons to remember it, for that before {he had ever heard of the 
Chriftians, fhe knew not the want of a bellyful, whereas it was 
now a difficult matter to get a mouthful. The condition of the 
whole horde certainly appeared to be very deplorable ; but I 
feel a happinefs in adding, that, by means of this captain and 
two or three well-difpofed farmers, feveral hordes of the outcaft 
Bosjefmans have fmce been brought in, and obtained by public 
fubfcription a confiderable quantity of flieep and horned cattle, 
of which, it is to be hoped, they will fpeedily fee their advantage 
in encreafmg the numbers j and one of that worthy and very 
ufeful fraternity of men, the Hernhiiters, has voluntarily offered 
his fervices to go among the Bosjefman hordes, and endeavour 
to promote among them that fenfe of comfort, which has fo 
effectually crowned their exertions in another part of the colony 
among the poor Hottentots, as has been noticed in the pre- 
ceding chapter. Other members of focieties, eftablilhed princi- 
pally with a view of propagating among favages the mild 
do<Strines of Chriftianity, have alfo lately arrived in this colony, 
whofe miffions are particularly directed to the two nations of 
the Bosjefmans and the Kaffers ; and though they perhaps may 
not make them readily comprehend the full intent and obje£l of 
their miffion, they will at leaft, by their mild and humane 
condudt, inlpire them with a degree of confidence in men of a 
different complexion to themfelves, and fhew them that the 
colony is now in the hands of a government that will no longer 
fandion the cruelties under which they have fo long and lately 
groaned. 
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