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JOURNEY TO BETHELSDORP. [1813. 
animals. Hence when God promises the utmost 
protection to his church, he says he will be as a wall 
of fire around, which neither lions nor tygers will 
penetrate. Perhaps many inferior animals are equally 
afraid of that element. 
15th. We halted at five o'clock in the mornings 
but how the oxen were able to continue twelve hour* 
dragging our waggons I know not; however, Cupido, 
who is our travelling director, and I believe a humane 
Hottentot, ordered it, wherefore I conclude it wa& 
right. — Thermometer at nine A.M. seventy-eight; at 
five P.M. seventy-one. 
A neighbouring boor made us a visit after breakfast. 
After returning to his house, he sent me some bunches 
of grapes, and some excellent milk. He offered us a 
cheese for a bottle of our wine, to which exchange we 
readily assented. He afterwards sent his own bottle 
for the wine ; it was well for him he did so, for it 
would hold twice as much as our botdes. The 
boor from the other side of Krakel river, kindly sent 
a horse to bring me over the river to dine with him. 
After dinner I walked about his premises. While 
walking about, I observed one of the Hottentots going 
to chastise a dog who had done some damage in the 
vineyard, though the dog had a stick tied to his neck 
to prevent his entering. The Hottentot took him 
near the spot where the ofJence was committed, where 
he gave him the chastisement. The instant that the 
culprit was set at liberty, the other dogs> about thirty 
