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 or perihed at Sea in attempting to wim back to their own Country; I hall jut cite one well atteted Example, and leave it to the Dicuion of thoe who o much admire the Police of European States.

" The Dutch Miionaries with all their Endeavours have not been able to convert a ingle Hottentot. Van der Stel, Governor of the Cape, having procured a Hottentot Infant, took Care to have him brought up in the Principles of the Chritian Religion, and the Manners and Cutoms of Europe. He cloathed him richly, had him taught everal Languages; and the Boy's Progres perfectly correponded with the Attention betowed upon it. The Governor, big with Expectations from his Pupil's Capacity, ent him to the Indies with a Commiary-General, who employed him uefully in the Company's Affairs. But, the Commiary dying, returned to the Cape, and in a Viit he made to ome of his Hottentot Relations a few Days after his Arrival, took the trange Reolution to exchange all his European Finery for a Sheep's Skin. In this new Dres he returned to the Fort, loaded with a Bundle