This was also the experience of the Huguenots. The company dispersed
them among the other settlers, and within a generation they were speaking
Dutch rather than French.
Van Riebeeck and his successors intended that the free burghers should
practice intensive agriculture on the Dutch model, but they were disap-
pointed. Lacking adequate capital and skilled labor, the free burghers were
not able to make a success of intensive agriculture, except as.market gar-
deners in and near the village on Table Bay,which became known as Cape
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