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derer of her mate, and in an instant laid him on the 
ground and began to tear him ; his brother, who was 
near, fired his musket on her, and the ball penetrating 
the animals throat, brought her to the ground, and 
rescued the poor man from the jaws of death, but 
not before he was terribly lacerated. In this way the 
young lion was obtained. I saw the skins of its parents 
at the Landdrost's. That of the male is black at the 
shoulders and part of the back, which is rather unusual 
in that part of Africa. The hair hanging from the 
head and neck is about twelve inches long, and as 
the lion has power to make his hair stand erect, this 
one, when alive, must have had a terrifying appear- 
ance. In the evening I preached a farewell discourse, 
by means of my two interpreters. 
1 1 th. About eleven o'clock, while our waggons were 
before the door, ready to depart, we engaged in prayer 
with many friends who came to bid us farewell, and 
many waited in the street for the same purpose — after 
which we parted from this kind people, accompanied 
by Mr. Kicherer and four of his friends. Two boors 
from Sneuberg, to which we were going, brought their 
horse waggons to convey us more quickly thither. 
These, with our own three ox waggons left the town 
together, which, with our driven oxen and the armed 
Hottentots who accompanied us, had much of the ap- 
pearance of an eastern caravan. I felt pain in sepa- 
rating from so many kind friends, whom I was never 
likely to meet again on earth ; but our work re- 
quired it. Graaf Reynet was soon out of sight, when 
