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The payment of an estate purchased is made sufficiently 
eas}^ to the purchaser. The customary conditions are to pay 
by three instalments, one-third ready monej', one-third in one 
year, and the remaining third at the end of the second year ; 
and the latter two-thirds bear no interest. And even the 
first instalment he can borrow of Government, through the 
loan bank, by giving the estate as a mortgage, w^ith two suffi- 
cient securities. So that very large estates may be purchased 
at the Cape with very little money, which is the chief reason 
of the multiplicity of vendues. 
3. The corn-boors live chiefly in the Cape district, and 
those parts of Stellenbosch and Drakenstein that are not dis- 
tant more than two or three days' journey from the Cape. 
Their farms are some freehold property, some gratuity land, 
but most of them loan farms. Many of these people are in 
good circumstances, and are considered in rank next to the 
wine-boor. The quantity of corn they bring to market is 
from a hundred to a thousand muids each, according to the 
quality of their farm, but more commonly to their skill and 
industry. They supply, also, the wine-boor and the grazier. 
The grain sold to these in the country is subject to no tax 
nor tythe ; but a duty amounting not quite to one-tenth of 
the value is paid at the barrier for all grain passing towards 
Cape Town. Their parochial assessments are the same as 
those of the wine-boor. 
The colonists of the Cape are miserable agriculturists, and 
may be said to owe their crops more to the native goodness 
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