228 KAFFIR KINDLINESS. 



A clever and good missionary was settled near here, and 

 all the Kaffirs spoke very highly of him. His good 

 influence might have done something in turning these 

 Kaffirs' minds in the right direction, but all their civility 

 and good feeling appeared as though natural and not by 

 tuition. I do not look to the cause, I merely state what 

 was really the case. They might have murdered me, and 

 concealed the fact with sufficient cunning to prevent its 

 discovery ; but their only idea seemed to be that of simple 

 honest-dealing. 



