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answer to the prayers of distant friends. He was cheer- 
ful and happy, appearing to consider himself perfectly 
safe with us, which is wonderful, considering how 
cruelly his nation has in former times been treated by 
the colonists. We soon made a large fire of the tur- 
pentine plant, which afforded both light and heat. 
The night was so cold, that while writing in the 
tent, I was obliged to have a hot stone under my feet. 
About ten P.M. a wolf came to see what he could 
make of us, but our fires and the barking of our dogs 
obliged him to keep his distance. 
22d. At sun-rise the thermometer was 32. We 
named our fountain, Hardcastle Fountain. I over- 
heard some of our Hottentots telling the young Bush- 
man what things he was likely to get when he should 
arrive at Cape-town. They told him that probably 
he would get a looking-glass to see himself in, like 
that which I had held before his face : but turning 
round his head, he said he did not like it — like 
thousands who refuse to see their own character de- 
picted in Scripture, turning from it with disgust. 
Mr. R. sowed some peach seeds, and I some orange 
seeds, near the fountain, which, if they come to per- 
fection, may furnish the natives with food. The 
passage leading from Hardcasde Fountain points 
nearly north ; having Kombuis Mountain in full view, 
at the distance of seven or eight miles. 
We departed at noon, when the thermometer was 
62. The first half of our journey lay N.E. and 
