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interesting particulars of the Hottentots, from 

 Latrobe's Journal of his visit to South Africa. 



There is a striking difference, he remarks, in the 

 conduct of the uncivilized, and of the Christian 

 Hottentots. All those who have been converted 

 by the Moravian missionaries, have learned some 

 useful trade, and, when they like their employ- 

 ment, work very industriously. They are natu- 

 rally kind-hearted and obliging ; and Christianity 

 has had such a happy effect on them, that they 

 live at the settlement of Gnadenthal, united as 

 brethren amongst themselves, and very grateful 

 to their teachers. 



The Hottentots have fine voices ; they are fond 

 of music, and are easily taught to sing. (t One 

 morning,'* Latrobe says, " at four o'clock, I was 

 awakened by the sweet sound of Hottentot voices 

 singing a hymn in the hall before my chamber 

 door. They had learned from some of the mission- 

 aries, that it was my birth-day, and I was struck 

 and affected by this mark of their regard ; nor 

 was their mode of expressing it confined to a 

 morning song. They had dressed out my chair 

 at the common table, with branches of oak 

 and laurel ; and even the school-children, in order 

 not to be behind in these kind offices, having 

 begged of their mistress to mark on a large white 

 muslin handkerchief some English words ex- 

 pressive of their good will towards me, they ma- 

 naged to embroider, them with a species of creeper 



