1812. 
AT GRAAFFREYNET. 
167 
To Mrs. Stockenstrom I was indebted for a most useful addition 
to my store of beads : these were the more valuable because they 
were not, as I found by experience, easily to be purchased at this 
distance from Cape Town. They were the remains of some which 
the late landdrost had brought to Graaffreynet for the purpose of 
distribution among that very nation by whom he was so treacherously 
murdered. 
From the acting-landdrost and the district-secretary Mr. Muller, 
I at all times received civility and attention : from the former I 
readily obtained cash for a bill on my agents in Cape Town. Neither 
do I forget a voluntary offer made by honest Bremmer, of supplying 
me with money for my draft to any amount : knowing that there was 
a scarcity of cash at this place, he wished to prove himself desirous of 
rendering me a more material service, than the use of the organ. 
I indulge myself in acknowledging every act of goodwill towards 
me, because in doing this I enjoy a second time, the pleasure which 
they first gave me : and if the course and consistency of my narrative, 
or the justification of my own proceedings, should compel me some- 
times to notice acts of a contrary kind, I hope that every one will do 
me the justice to believe that I do so, with pain and great relucti^nce. 
