2^6 Voya(/e of the Novara. 



various articles manufactured belong to the community, and are 

 expended in defraying the expenses of, and supporting, the 

 mission. The inhabitants of Genaaden Dal are closely con- 

 nected, by religious ties, with the community ; and only those 

 who profess the principles of the Moravian brotherhood are 

 permitted to settle among them. 



The field-labourers, who hire themselves out to labour else- 

 where, are frequently absent from the settlement for months at 

 a time, and return to Genaaden Dal immediately after the com- 

 pletion of seed-time or harvest. It is significant that these 

 labourers regard this period of emancipation, as a sort of 

 relaxation from the severe discipline and rules to which they 

 are subjected in the religious community. 



The principal articles of food of the inhabitants consist of 

 maize, beans, pumpkins, rice, fruits, tea, coffee, and occasionally 

 mutton. Wine is strictly prohibited throughout the settlement, 

 and when a member of the Novara Expedition, never imagining 

 that this interdict extended to strangers as well, desired the 

 attendant at the house we were occupying to fetch a bottle of 

 sherry, that individual regarded him with as horror-stricken an 

 air as though he had asked him to participate in some crime. 



Although the first settlers in Genaaden Dal were pure Hot- 

 tentots, not more than five or six at present speak the idiom of 

 their fathers, the rest knowing only the Dutch tongue. The 

 Superintendent had the kindness to allow an old blind man, of 

 the name of Sebastian Hendrik, to be presented to us, born in 

 the colony in 1775, of Hottentot parents, " een opregt Hottentot" 



