CHAPTER VIII. 
TRANSACTIONS AT KLAARWATER, AFTER THE RETURN FROM GRAFFREYNET. 
At four in the afternoon we came in sight of Klaarwater. I halted 
my men at the top of the ridge above the village, and, according to 
colonial custom *, saluted the missionaries with twenty discharges of 
our muskets, as a complimentary mode of announcing our return. 
They had been yesterday apprised by a Hottentot called Lang Adam, 
that we were on the road from the Kloof, and should certainly arrive 
this day. But our salutation remained unanswered ; not a musket 
was fired to welcome us ; nor did any one make his appearance to 
receive us. At this, we were all naturally much surprised ; as the 
noise was loud enough to have awakened the whole village, had every 
inhabitant been even fast asleep. 
See examples of this, at pages 1 73 and 328 of the first volume. 
