. Travels and adventures in southern Africa. it being a maxim with him, that it is more profitable to assist onesfriends, than to hoard money by usury. AN AFF1>UENT SNEEUWBEKG GRAZIER. 331 Men like this are not numerous in any country, and every wealthyvee-boor does not act like Schalk Burger. But he is not a solitary instanceof this character in Southern Africa; and where such men are foundin the walks of common life, the mass of the community, we may feelassured, cannot be altogether so brutal and degraded, as some Englishwriters have too unqualifiedly represented them. The hospitality fo
. Travels and adventures in southern Africa. it being a maxim with him, that it is more profitable to assist onesfriends, than to hoard money by usury. AN AFF1>UENT SNEEUWBEKG GRAZIER. 331 Men like this are not numerous in any country, and every wealthyvee-boor does not act like Schalk Burger. But he is not a solitary instanceof this character in Southern Africa; and where such men are foundin the walks of common life, the mass of the community, we may feelassured, cannot be altogether so brutal and degraded, as some Englishwriters have too unqualifiedly represented them. The hospitality for which the African farmers have always been ce-kbrated, still exists undecayed in the Sneeuwberg. Not only this family,but every other I visited in that quarter, positively refused any remunerationfor lodging or provisions; and many of them made us presents of loavesof fine bread, dried fruit, comfits, &c., though they had never seen nor heardof us before, and knew neither our name nor residence, 2 u 2 332 RRITISII EMIGRANTS OT- CHAPTER II. CAUSKS OF THK PAUTIAI, FAILURE OF THE ALBANY SETTLERS.—ER-RONEOUS NOTIONS RESPECTING THE CLIIMATE.—INADEQUATE EX-TENT OF THE LOCATIONS.— MISTAKES AND JIISUNDERSTANDINGS.— CONDITION Of THE SETTLERS IN 1823.—SUBSCRIPTIONS FOR THEIR IlELIEF. MEASURES OF GOVERNMENT. REVIVAL OF THE SETTLEMENT, AND ITS PROSPECTS IN 1826. The origin of the British emigration to Southern Africa, and the pro-gress of the settlement down to the close of its second year, have been amplydetailed by the Civil Servant ; and a particular description of the teni-tory in which the emigrants were located, and of the severe distresses towhich many of them were subjected, owing to the destruction of their crops POLICY OF THE EMIGRATION. 333 and gardens by a calamitous succession of blights and hurricanes, has beengiven to the public in Mr. Pringles little tract, published in 1824.* It is not my purpose to retrace the ground already trodden by theseauthors,—s
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