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age, who only measures three feet nine inches, was in- 
troduced to us. She knew no more about God than 
the very cattle, although she lived amongst white peo- 
ple; yet she expressed satisfaction on hearing that 
missionaries would come soon to instruct her and her 
people. There were some other persons younger, but 
equally ignorant. 
On travelling a little farther we came to M. Pinnar s 
place, which, though not at the utmost boundary of 
the colony, is the last habitation of white men. In 
conversation with some Hottentots by means of an 
interpreter, I observed one man smile, as if much 
pleased, when he heard that people were coming from 
a far country to instruct them. I could not but hope 
that Jesus had thoughts of mercy toward this man. I 
visited a small reed hut, which stood at the foot of a 
hill behind the boor's house, in which an old bhnd 
Bushman lived. We found him asleep in a sheep 
skin, which was bis only dress ; indeed there w^as not 
another article within his hut. When he awoke he 
slowly sat up ; and, from the blackness of his skin, his 
long beard, and probably not having smiled for many 
years, he had an uncommonly grave and peculiar ap- 
pearance. A friend from Graaf Reynet was my 
Dutch interpreter, and a Hottentot girl about twelve 
years of age, interpreted into the Bushmen's language, 
kneeling on the ground, with her black sheep skin 
thrown over her shoulders, and her clasped hands 
under her chin. She spake to the old man what she 
was desired, with a gravity that astonished me. It was 
