450 
NAMACQUA LAND. 
[1813. 
the deprivations to which a missionary is sometimes 
subjected. However, I have no doubt but the exchange 
of worlds was most happy for her. 
Mrs. Sass, a most lively, well informed Christian, 
was ill of the tooth-ache on our arrival, but during the 
night she got better. She appeared remarkably suited 
to be a missionary's wife. Mr, Sass is evidently a man 
of ingenuity. He had made a black hat for himself 
of skin, that without exact inspection would have been 
taken for English manufacture. His black skin trowsers 
had also much the appearance of cloth : his shoes, like- 
wise made by himself, were the best imitation of 
English shoes I had seen in Africa: his tin boxes 
were a tolerably good imitation. They appeared to 
live very happy together in the middle of a barren 
wilderness. Thermometer at noon 76. 
They were only at Silver Fountain as a temporary 
.situation, till their ultimate destination should be re- 
solved on. They had an opportunity of teaching a 
few young people to read, and to inform them of the 
things of God, likewise of instructing the parents 
morning and evening; but many of the people were 
gone, and old Kok had it in contemplation to retire to 
Griqua town, to end his days with his sons and other 
relations who live there. It was therefore, after much 
deliberation, resolved that Mr. and Mrs. Sass, toge- 
ther with Mr. and Mrs. Helm, who were present with 
us from Pella, should go to the kraal of Orlams on the 
Great River ; to which proposal the parties agreed, and 
