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also, according to their own ideas, as a corrective to the su- 
perabundance of bile which the exclusive use of butchers' 
meat is supposed to engender. To cultivate the fisheries on 
the coast of Africa would afford the means of employment and 
an ample source of provision for a great number of Hottentot 
families. 
At Mossel Bay, besides the fisheries, there are two articles, 
the natural produce of the country, in the collection and pre- 
paration of which the Hottentots might very advantageously 
be employed, both to themselves and to the community. 
These are aloes and barilla, the plant that produces the first 
growing in every part of the district that surrounds the bay, 
and that from the ashes of which the other is procured being 
equally abundant in the plain through which the Olifant River 
flows at no great distance from the bay. Here too the culti- 
vation of grain and pulse might be greatly extended. 
If the introduction of Chinese were effected, the markets of 
Cape Town and Saldanha Bay could not fail to be most 
abundantly supplied with wine, grain, pulse, fruit, and vege- 
tables ; probably to such a degree as not to be excelled in 
the world, either for price, quality, or quantity. 
The consequence of such a system of establishing markets 
would be the immediate erection of villages at these places. 
To each village might be allowed a church, with a clergyman, 
who might act at the same time as village schoolmaster. The 
farmers' children put out to board would contribute to the 
speedy enlargement of the villages. The farmers would thus 
be excited to a sort of emulation, by seeing the produce of 
