AQ MORAL IMPROVEMENT OF THE GRIQUAS. 
by the heat. I observed a couple of tame ostriches 
belonging to the natives stalking about and feeding 
in an enclosure adjoining some cottages near the 
Station. 
About thirty years ago, the Griquas are described to 
have been “ a herd of wandering and naked savages, 
subsisting by plunder and the chace. Their bodies 
were daubed with red paint, their heads loaded with 
grease and shining powder, with no covering but the 
filthy kaross over their shoulders. They were with- 
out morals, without knowledge, or any traces of civili- 
zation, and wholly abandoned to drunkenness, witch- 
craft, licentiousness, and all the consequences which 
arise from the unchecked growth of such vices.” And 
yet the despised and traduced Missionary, after wan- 
dering about with these people year after year, en- 
during hardships, sufferings, and dangers, at length 
succeeded in inducing them to settle at Klaarwater, 
the spot near which Griqua Town is now established, 
and where, under the judicious and zealous exertions 
of Mr. Wright, I found the settlement rapidly advanc- 
ing in civilization and improvement. The inhabit- 
ants, incited by the example and encouragement of 
their Chief Waterboer, were busily engaged in build- 
ing comfortable dwellings, on a scale much superior 
to anything of the kind hitherto seen in that quarter 
of the world. ‘The party I met on the evening 
before my arrival had in fact been cutting timber 
for the same purpose. A substantial school-room, 
