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miles west of the Missionary Stations. He did not 
shoot any, at least but few, but took hold of them in 
cold blood and butchered them with knives, or any 
other instrument he had at hand. He even made 
the men cut the throats of their own wives and 
children, others he packed in huts, to which he set 
fire, and few indeed escaped to tell the tale of woe. 
This horrid barbarity was perpetrated, not with 
a view to procure anything, for the sufferers had 
nothing ; but in order to prevent his approach being 
ies in this quarter, and to clear the sii for 
future expeditions *.”’ 
Griqua Town is situated about 29° south latitude, 
and 24° east longitude: its population amounted, at 
the period of my visit, to about one thousand seven 
hundred persons, consisting, in nearly equal propor- 
tions, of Griquas and Bechuanas. ‘The spot selected 
for the present Missionary Station is in every re- 
spect much better adapted for a village, and the 
ground under cultivation is of a far more promising 
character, than the barren and rocky site on which 
it originally stood, and which is now entirely de- 
serted. ‘The country round presents a very cheer- 
less prospect, not a tree of any description being 
visible except those planted in the Missionary’s gar- 
den; while the low stunted bushes thinly scattered 
over the sandy plain appear parched and withered 
* South African Commercial Advertiser, 8th of February, 1834. 
