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JOURNEY ACROSS THE 
[1815. 
banks continued lined with trees on both sides. 
Three men belonging to Kok's kraal who joined us 
the day before on their way to Griqua town, returned 
with us to Huiman s kraal this morning, as they said 
Kok was to consult us about removing to Griqua 
land ; and they wished to be present. They went 
forward to apprise Kok of our approach. Koks 
kraal, when nearer Griqua land some years ago, 
was visited by Dr. Somerville and Mr. Truter of 
Cape-town. 
After breakfast I walked over to a part of Huiman's 
kraal, which stood in the middle of a thicket of trees, 
about half a mile distant. It is upon an eminence, 
at the bottom of which runs a small brook, which 
comes from the Great River. The village consists of 
six houses, and about forty inhabitants, so compleatly 
concealed in a small square surrounded >vith tall trees, 
that it cannot be seen from any point when approaching 
it, till you are among the trees. Sorry was I that I 
could not converse with the people; we could only 
look at each other, but on returning to the waggons 
I got Cupido to go and tell them something about the 
Son of God and his great salvation. Mr. Read 
conversed with an aged blind man at the Kraal, who 
could speak Dutch, whom he found very averse to 
listen to any thing about the gospel. Huiman said, 
that if a missionary came to Kok's kraal, he should go 
and reside there. As they abound in catde, we had 
plently of milk while we remained. The people 
seemed to have nothing to do but, like their dogs, to 
