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wanted, and of no particular importance to the settlement. I was 
glad to add to my party, not only an interpreter, but a person whose 
manners were a little more lively than those of Hottentots ; and I 
hoped therefore that his presence would give some animation to our 
fireside. 
Mr. Anderson, who was desirous of having a drawing of Klaar- 
water, had requested that I would make one for him. With this 
I readily complied, as he engaged expressly that it should not be 
sent to Europe before 1 arrived there myself, and that it should 
not, at all events be engraved from. As I was exceedingly anxious 
to quit that village, I was unwilling to delay my departure on this 
account ; but promised to finish it at Ongeluks, while waiting for 
Muchunka's arrival. This promise I now performed ; and sent the 
drawing by one of the Hottentots of the out-post, who returned to 
Klaarwater on the following day.* 
14:th. All the members of the parti/ with whom the journey was 
to be performed, were now at length collected together ; and amounted 
only to ten Hottentots, and a native interpreter. As a body of men 
intended for their own defence, against the assaults of a hostile tribe, 
this number was very insufficient ; but with a due proportion of 
prudence and personal courage, they would be enough for repelling 
any predatory attack ; and might in a favourable situation, be able, 
with the advantage of fire-arms, to stand against a multitude of such 
opponents as those men would probably be, whom we were likely to 
meet, should they even prove disposed to harm us. 
There was still some work to be done about the waggons, which 
would have employed my people here another day, but as I wished to 
remove them beyond the reach of further communication with the 
* Sequel. — On my return to Cape Town, at the termination of my travels, I found 
that other people had been much more expeditious than myself; for not only had the 
drawing reached that town, and proceeded to England, but it had even made its way back 
again; and was recognised in the form of a print engraved to be the principal 
ornament of a book of Missionary Travels by a person who visited Klaarwater five months 
after I finally left it, and who so much admired this drawing, that he has thought it worthy 
of being published as his own. 
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