Chap. II. 
EFFECTS OF SLAVE-SYSTEM. 
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there tliree or four years, in building stone dykes and dams 
for the Dutch farmers, they were well content if at the end of 
that time they could return with as many cows. On presenting 
one to their clnef they ranked as respectable men in the tribe 
ever afterwards. These volunteers were highly esteemed among 
the Dutch, under the name of Mantatees. They were paid at 
the rate of one shilling a day and a large loaf of bread between 
six of them. Numbers of them, who had formerly seen me about 
twelve hundred miles inland from the Cape, recognised me with 
the loud laughter of joy when I was passing them at their work 
in the Koggefelt and Bokkefelt, within a few days of Cape Town. 
I conversed with them and with elders of the Dutch Church, 
for whom they were working, and found that the system was 
thoroughly satisfactory to both parties. I do not believe that 
there is one Boer, in the Cashan or Magaliesberg country, who 
would deny that a law was made, in consequence of tliis labour 
passing to the colony, to deprive these labourers of their hardly- 
earned cattle, for the very cogent reason, that, “ if they want to 
work, let them work for us their masters,” though boasting that 
in their case it would not be paid for. I can never cease to be 
most unfeignedly thankful that I was not born in a land of slaves. 
No one can understand the elfect of the unutterable meanness of 
the slave-system on the minds of those who, but for the strange 
obliquity which prevents them from feeling the degradation of not 
being gentlemen enough to pay for services rendered, would be 
equal in vntue to ourselves. Fraud becomes as natural to them 
as “ paying one’s way ” is to the rest of mankind. 
Wherever a missionary lives, traders are sure to come; they 
are mutually dependent, and each aids in the work of the other; 
but experience shows that the two employments cannot very well 
be combined in the same person. Such a combination would not 
be morally wrong, for nothing would be more fair, and apostolical 
too, than that the man who devotes his time to the spiritual wel¬ 
fare of a people should derive temporal advantage from upright 
commerce, which traders, who aim exclusively at their own en¬ 
richment, modestly imagine ought to be left to them. But 
though it is right for missionaries to trade, the present system of 
missions renders it inexpedient to spend time in so doing. No 
missionary with whom I ever came in contact, traded; and while 
