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CORNELIS. — MARTHA, MARY, AND JOHN. 
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description I required ; yet, as the landdrost assured me they would 
all prove valuable servants, I had no hesitation in engaging them ; 
although three appeared to be mere boys. On the following day they 
presented themselves at my tent, ready for the journey ; and I then 
paid to each one, a portion of his money in advance. 
24:th. Through Mr. Kicherer's recommendation and assistance, I 
also engaged two other Hottentots, or rather Half-Hottentots, who 
were considered to be of a much superior class, as having been baptized 
and taught to read : on this account I agreed to pay them a salary 
double that of my ordinary men. 
The name of one, was Cornells Goeiman the offspring of a Hot- 
tentot man and the daughter of a Dutch colonist ; a mixture as rare, 
as the converse is common ; most of the Mixed- Hottentots, in whom 
there is any Dutch blood, deriving it from the father, but very seldom 
from the mother. He was taller than the usual stature of men of his 
father's race, his complexion was fairer, and features nearly European ; 
but his hair was still as woolly as that of a negro, though much less so 
than in the genuine Hottentot. 
The other, was Jan Van Roye (or Van Rooyen), a man formerly 
well known in England and Holland, as one of the three Hottentots 
who were brought to Europe about the year 180.3 by Mr. Kicherer, 
and exhibited as specimens of missionary conversion. The names of 
these three, it may be recollected, were Martha, Mary and John. 
They excited great interest among the curious, more especially among 
the favorers of missionary labours ; and met with much notice from 
all ranks of the community. Mary, or, as she was here called, Mietje, 
was the wife of John, or Jan Van Roye. After Mr. Kicherer's return 
from Europe, John, together with Mary and Martha, remained for 
some years under his protection as domestic servants ; and were 
treated, as it will readily be supposed, with the greatest indulgence 
and kindness. But at length, Jan and his wife, giving way to their 
propensity to that ruinous vice, inebriety, and proving in other 
respects immoral and undeserving, their protector found himself 
compelled to put them out of his house ; although he still continued, 
with benevolent feelings towards them, to watch over their conduct. 
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