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or periſhed at Sea in attempting to ſwim back to their own Country; I ſhall juſt cite one well atteſted Example, and leave it to the Diſcuſſion of thoſe who ſo much admire the Police of European States.
"The Dutch Miſſionaries with all their Endeavours have not been able to convert a ſingle 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 Chriſtian Religion, and the Manners and Cuſtoms of Europe. He cloathed him richly, had him taught ſeveral Languages; and the Boy's Progreſs perfectly correſponded with the Attention beſtowed upon it. The Governor, big with Expectations from his Pupil's Capacity, ſent him to the Indies with a Commiſſary-General, who employed him uſefully in the Company's Affairs. But, the Commiſſary dying, returned to the Cape, and in a Viſit he made to ſome of his Hottentot Relations a few Days after his Arrival, took the ſtrange Reſolution to exchange all his European Finery for a Sheep's Skin. In this new Dreſs he returned to the Fort, loaded with a Bundle
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