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instruction. School-houses are built, and regular masters provided 

 Churches are provided for the Catholics, Lutherans, and reformed commu- 

 nions; and a regular attendance on the services of the confession to which 

 the colonists belong- is strictly enforced on all of them. From the delicate 

 circumstances in which the kingdom of the Netherlands is placed, owing to 

 the religious difference betweeu the two parts of which it is composed (and, 

 in this particular, the resemblance of the state of Ireland is unfortunately 

 but too complete), it has been deemed wise to keep education distinct from 

 spiritual tuition, though both go on concurrently ; and hence the school- 

 books are all of a description which none can disapprove. The teachers, one 

 of them from Hofwyl, have introduced the system of instruction adopted by 

 Fellenburg. According to the representations of the clergy, who complained 

 bitterly of the utter ignorance of every religious feeling or idea among those 

 who were first fixed in the colony, but especially among the young, the 

 improvement, in this respect, has been so great as to be highly gratifying to 

 their feelings— Quarterly Journal of A gricullure, No. 7, p. 116. 



LOCAL INTELLIGENCE. 



Heer Logement.—The following names, amongst others, are incribed upon 

 the walls of a cave called the Heer Logement, near the Oliphants River 



Jacob Bredt, 1747, ben ik de kopman al; by de Heer Jacob Cloete— Dr. 

 Smith's MSS. 



Northern Frontier. -On the 14th November, 1827, the Bushmen stole 

 from Mr. F. Kruger, sixteen oxen, and murdered two men. On the 30th of 

 May, 1829, they carried away 51 head of black cattle from the bastards Piet 

 Schalkwyk and Gert Rooyfonteyn shot one horse, killed William Kapok, 

 and wounded a little girl belonging to the first-named individual. The 

 Field-Commandant, with a Commando, went sometime afterwards in search 

 of the plunderers and found them beneath the Taag Pan, with only the 

 horns and portions of the skin of the cattle in question remaining. Upon the 

 approach of the farmers the Bushmen attacked them with great ferocity, 

 whereby it became necessary to defend themselves, and in the action six of 

 their number were wounded. From the position of the plunderers, which 

 was in a thicket, the Commandant was unable to ascertain their loss, but 

 supposes from the various statement made to him that twelve must have 

 been killed. 



Field-Commandant Redelinghuys has re-organized a peace with the 

 Bushmen adjoining the Hantam frontier, and states that no depredations 

 have been committed by them for several months past. He has also recom- 

 mended Klaas Lynx to be recognized by the Colonial Government as tin 

 chief of the District in question, and to have the batton indicative thereof 

 granted to him. 



On the 15 January, 1830, the Bushmen stole 96 horses from Louw Erasmus 

 and his Sons, residing in the District of Somerset, and six more from John 

 Ncukirk, but with the exception of eleven which they killed, the rest were 

 retaken. 



On the same day, but in a different district, they murdered Thomas 

 Denhelie, servant to Hermanus Maarsdorp, and carried away 49 goats and 22 

 sheep. On the 19th following, they robbed some bastards of a number of 

 horses. Between the 6th and 11th of February, they killed eight horses 

 belonging to Karel A. van der Merwe and Isaac Hermanus Visagie. Four 

 of the offenders were captured and the rest escaped. 



Execution.— Willem, a Malay, was executed for the Murder of his wife 

 Sana, on the 1st of December, 1829. On no occasion between the period <>l 

 In-, condemnation and execution did he evince the slightest fear of death; 

 be ascended the scaffold with great firmness, and met nis fate without any 

 e\ idcnt agitation or apparent regret. He declared to his religious attendant 

 •'Hue time before the fatal day, that he was sorry he had never known « h»1 

 i was to experience fear. 



