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scenes of their misdemeanors. But as Zeerust derives 

 its chief support from the ivory and ostrich-feather 

 trade, it is a serious matter for the mercantile com- 

 munity. 



With the hope of obtaining a driver, I rode over to 

 Mr. Jansen's, the missionary at Moiloes, a large Kaffir 

 town, situated on the spring that is the source of the 

 Notawaney. The population must be between twenty and 

 thirty thousand. The huts, which are most regularly 

 laid out, were remarkably clean, and the population 

 comfortable and well-to-do. The chief or king I met, 

 a very good-looking man of five or six-and- thirty, dressed 

 in European clothes, and speaking a little English. 



It is quite evident he does not love the Dutch, and 

 would gladly transfer his suzerainship to England. He 

 regretted that he had no hunting lands now, or how 

 glad he would have been to accompany me, but he 

 would send and tell Kama and Sechelle to be good 

 to me. 



There is a great deal of cultivation in this neighbour- 

 hood, Indian corn and Kaffir corn (holcus sorgus) 

 growing for miles along the approach to the town. I 

 also visited the church and school a clean, tidy build- 

 ing in the most populous part of the community. 



And I would now ask to whom all this apparent 

 and substantial prosperity is due ? To Mr. Jansen, the 

 good missionary. He is the first of what I may 

 designate the real missionaries those who have bond 

 fde established themselves among the heathen and he 

 is a good example of those noble self-denying men 

 that I shall have afterwards to speak of. Mr. Jansen 

 is a Dane by birth, and by profession a sailor. Nearly 

 thirty years ago he came here, and has made Moiloes 



