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them to live with decency. One great step towards the bet- 
tering of the condition of these people, would be the establish- 
ment of fairs or markets at Algoa Bay, Plettenberg's Bay, 
Mossel Bay, and Saldanha Bay ; to which, at certain fixed 
periods, once a month or quarter for instance, they might 
drive down their cattle, and bring their other articles of pro- 
duce for sale. 
This might immediately be effected by prohibiting the 
butchers from sending round their servants to collect cattle at 
the boors' houses ; and by giving public notice of the times 
at which the markets would be held at the different places. 
At Algoa Bay a great variety of produce, besides sheep and 
horned cattle, might be exhibited together, not only from the 
boors, but also from the Kaffers and the Hottentots. These 
people would, no doubt, be very glad to give their ivory and 
skins of leopards and antelopes in exchange for iron, beads, 
and tobacco, and perhaps coarse cloths, provided they were 
allowed to take the advantage of a fair and open market. The 
honey that abounds in all the forests would be collected by 
the Hottentots and brought to the market at Plettenberg's 
Bay, where the great plenty of timber might also lead to a 
very extensive commerce, and furnish employment for num- 
bers of this race of natives, who require only proper encou- 
ragement to become valuable members of society. An esta- 
bhshment of Moravian missionaries at this bay would prove of 
infinite benefit to the colony. It would be difficult to per- 
suade the boor of this, and nothing would convince him of 
the truth of it, but the circumstance of his being able to pro- 
cure as good a waggon for 150 or 200 rix dollars as he must 
now purchase at the rate of 400 dollars in Cape Town. There 
