AUG.] CONTINENT OF AFRICA. 
367 
Remarkable is the attachment which the natives of 
warm cUmates have to the manners and customs of 
their forefathers. The Chinese, Hindoos, Turks, and 
many other nations, dress, build their houses. Sec, in 
the very same way as their progenitors did two thou- 
sand years ago. In south Africa it is the same. If 
you see only one Matchappee, Coranna, or Bush- 
man's house, you see an identical pattern of every 
house belonging to that particular nation. As birds 
of the same kind build their nests exactly alike, so do 
the different African tribes, hardly ever differing in 
size. 
1 5th. Mr. R. preached in the morning in Dutch 
to the Griquaas, and at the same time Mr. Janz 
preached, through an interpreter, to thirty-two Coran^ 
nas who came from the neighbourhood. In the after- 
noon they reversed it. While we were celebrating the 
Lord's supper, the Corannas sat witnessing it with 
seriousness. 
Near our waggons I observed a camel-thorn tree 
stripped of its leaves by the winter which was just 
over, but there were three branches of a difierent 
kind of tree, or bush, which had beeti ingrafted into 
it by a bird, which is a common occurrence in this 
country ; these three branches were full of leaves. 
16th. We named this out-post Rowland Hill Dorp. 
Thermometer at noon 76. At one, P.M. we departed, 
and till three, P.M. travelled due N. when turning 
