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receive our present, and then to hear what we had 
to say. I made him a present of some trinkets fur- 
nished me by the ladies of Kingsland, accompanied 
by the lid of my shaving box, which happened to 
contain a looking-glass. When taking out the dif- 
ferent articles, I observed him slyly looking towards 
the parcel, to discover what was coming next. During 
the whole proceeding, he sat motionless, but when he 
saw no more presents were coming, he condescended 
to open his mouth, and said, " You would have been 
perfectly safe, though you had not had Adam Kok 
and his friends with you, or though I had received no 
presents. So soon as I was informed by Munaneets 
of your arrival, I came to you." He then desired 
A Kok to consider himself as much at home in Lat- 
takoo as at Klaar Water. On which A. Kok thanked 
him, and told him that Mr. Anderson and Mr. Read 
had both presents of tobacco for him. He said — 
" Do not give me the tobacco just now, or these 
people, (pointing to those without the waggons) will 
ask it all away from me," 
With the advice of my two friends, I proceeded to 
tell him, that I came from the same country, from 
whence the missionaries had been sent to instruct 
the nations in Africa. That I came over the great 
water, in a wooden house, which the wind took four 
moons in blowing to their country, to see how the 
missionaries were acting to the African people. That 
when I came to Klaar Water, I heard his people 
would be glad to have teachers as well as other 
