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barbarians, possessing no other semblance of the human charac- 
ter than what they derive from their formation." 
The captain then, with a feehng truly national, recommends 
that measures be taken for planting a colony of Americans among 
these people. This project, however, being foreign to the policy 
of our new government, was, of course, never acted upon. But, 
after our late war with England, in the year 1819, the British 
ministry held out such flattering inducements to those who felt 
willing to abandon their country and their home, and become res- 
idents in the wild but delightful region of southern Africa, that 
large numbers in the following winter embarked for the Cape of 
Good Hope, for the express purpose of settling in Cafiraria. 
Among the number were several families of various religious 
denominations, who were warmly in favour of extending the ad- 
vantages of education to the rising generation of the natives. 
Among these, some of the Methodist persuasion took the most 
conspicuous part. Their numbers were sufficiently large to en- 
title them to the promised annual stipend of seventy-five pounds 
sterling, for the support of a clergyman. Application was ac- 
cordingly made, previous to embarking, to the Wesleyan Mission- 
ary Committee in London, for a suitable person to fulfil the duties 
of that station, and the Reverend William Show was appointed 
to accompany the emigrants in that capacity. It was thus that the 
district of Albany first became a missionary station, the beneficial 
influence of which arrangement is now felt and acknowledged 
with gratitude by hundreds of enlightened and partially civilized 
natives. . 
The Cafifres were always a warlike people, whereas their neigh- 
bours, the Hottentots, in general, and those near the Cape in par- 
ticular, are described as a mild, simple, aff'ectionate, and inoffen- 
sive race ; but as extremely indolent in their habits, and limited 
in their intellectual faculties. But, wherever any sort of effort has 
been made to cultivate their powers, and give them a feeling of 
hope and liberty in their occupations, they have proved active, in- 
telligent, and useful. They are of common stature, but not so 
short as the whites in general, while their hands and feet are re- 
markably small. Their skin is of a yellowish-brown hue, resem- 
bling that of a white man severely affected with the jaundice. 
Their appearance, however, indicates health and contentment: 
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