CHAP. XII. 
JOURNEY ACROSS THE BUSHMEN'S COUNTRY. 
May 20. 
Now we were to part from our friends who had 
accompanied us ten days. Mr. Kicherer preached to 
us in the morning ; we then partook of an early dinner ; 
after which we united in prayer to God, commending 
each other into his hands, and after saluting one an- 
other, we separated in silence, perhaps to see each 
other no more until the judgment of the great day. 
We then entered the Bushmen's country, now and 
then casting a look after the dear friends we had left 
behind. We travelled across a plain until the setting 
of the sun, when we came to water that had been 
collected in holes during the late rain. Some of our 
stragglers brought to us three young Bushmen, whom 
they had met on a journey. They possessed more 
lively and interesting countenances than the Hotten- 
tots, Their father, an old man, they said was lodging 
in a hole among the rocks at a little distance. We 
informed them we had come from a distant country, 
had taught the Hottentots many good things, and 
designed also to send teachers to their nation. They 
said they were glad to hear it ; and one of them offered 
