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of the year 1843 at Cape Town in search of health, and 

 took an opportunity of visiting the Moravian brethren at 

 Genaaden Dal. One of the missionaries sat in the middle 

 of the chapel at a table covered with green cloth, and gave 

 out, verse by verse, a hymn in the Dutch language, which was 

 afterwards sung, with accompaniment by the organ, by the 

 entire community assemble in the edifice. The men and 

 women sat apart from each other, on smooth wooden benches, 

 the former on the left, the latter on the right of the officiating 

 minister. The chapel was only illuminated with a few tallow 

 candles ; but the devotional feeling of the community seemed 

 to gain by this simple unostentatious ritual, and the mysterious 

 solemn obscurity of their place of congregational worship. 



Next morning, 12th October, some of the brethren paid 

 us the attention of examining in our presence the scholars 

 of the Seminary for Teachers, so that we might personally 

 satisfy ourselves of their progress in the various branches 

 of education. This academy for the education of suitable 

 instructors, was originally established in 1838, through the 

 generous assistance of a Saxon nobleman. Count Schonburg, 

 and year by year since, has been so liberally assisted by that 

 benevolent nobleman, that its future prosperity seems fairly 

 established. At present there are in the seminary 14. pupils 

 (Hottentots, Caffres, and half-breeds). Since the year of its 

 establishment, 50 young persons in all have been sent out 

 hence ; of whom, however, only one half proved to be 

 available for the duties of teachers. Up to the year 18.5G, 



