formed by stating that the stock of the farm consisted of eighty horses, six
hundred and ninety head of horned cattle, two thousand four hundred and
seventy sheep, and an immense quantity of poultry of all kinds. The family
itself, including masters, servants, hottentots [Khoikhoi], and slaves,consist-
ed of a hundred and five persons. . . . The quantity of corn sown upon his
estate this year, including every description, amounted to sixty-one bush-
els....
[I]t will be seen that an African farm may almost be called a State in
miniature ....
From the produce of the lands and flocks must the whole tribe
be fed, so that the surplus is not so great as might be supposed at first sight.
The visitor listed items that could not be produced on the spot: "First,
articles of manufacture, as cloth, linen, hats, arms; secondly of luxury, as
tea, coffee,sugar, spices, &c:-thirdly
of raw materials, as iron, pitch, and
rosin. 'Tis only through the medium of these wants that a colonist is
connected with the rest of the world; ...
excepting articles of the above
description, there is scarcely anything necessary for the supply of his house-
hold which is not drawn from his own premises."14 He should have added
guns, which were essential possessions of all farmers.