BETHELSDORP. 
great power invested in the governor, and his laudable 
anxiety to exert it for the public good. It must be a 
work of time. Many of the boors will not allow their 
female Hottentots to be called women, but maids, in 
order to make a distinction between them and their 
»vives and daughters ; maids being considered by them 
as an inferior title. Now such as have from childhood 
been trained up with these low ideas of the Hottentot 
people, cannot by any law be made soon to respect 
them. Their minds must be tutored : they must learn 
that " of one blood, God made all the nations that 
dwell on the face of the earth," and that all mankind 
must appear before the judgment-seat of Christ," 
equally to answer to him for the deeds done in this 
life, whether good or evil. 
The goats are constantly spoiling the gardens at 
Bethelsdorp ; no fence they can devise will keep them 
out, they are so mischievous. I inquired why, in this 
country, goats are uniformly mixed with sheep. It is 
because of their boldness, and desire to get forward : 
thus they lead on the sheep in travelling, and encourage 
them by their example, to cross rivers, &c. Thermo- 
meter at noon 78. Much lightning. 
2d. I walked about the village with three of the bre- 
thren. In the first house we entered there were four boys 
driving about a mill, of a peculiar construction, for 
grinding wheat : a young woman was feeding the mill 
by gradually pouring wheat into a hole in the centre of 
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