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trated with their flocks and herds far beyond the present 
boundaries of the colony, had they not met with a bokl and 
spirited race of people in the Kaffers, who resisted and effec- 
tually repelled their encroachments on that side. Their 
persecution of the Hottentots in their employ has at length 
rouzed this people, also, to make an effort for their former 
independence. Should they succeed, and it is their own 
fault if they do not, for it appears they are superior in point 
of numbers, and much so in courage, the whole or the greatest 
part of the district of Graaf Reynet must, in consequence, be 
abandoned by the Dutch African peasantry. 
The boors of this district are entirely graziers ; few at- 
tempting to put a plough or a spade into the ground ; ex- 
cept in Zwart Kop's Bay, or in some parts of the Sneuwberg, 
preferring a life of complete indolence and a diet of animal 
food to the comfort of procuring a supply of daily bread, 
and a few vegetables, by a very trifling degree of exertion. 
In Sneuwberg, indeed, the depredations of the locusts are 
discouraging to the cultivator, as the odds are great he reaps 
nothing, while this devouring insect remains in the country. 
About the drosdy, also, they cultivate a little grain, which 
they exchange with the grazier for sheep and cattle. 
The district of Graaf Reynet is entirely composed of loan- 
farms, and it is divided as follows : 
1. The Drosdif. 
2. Sneuwberg, consisting of three parts. 
3. Swa^ers Hoeck. 
