CAPE-TOWN'i 
[1814. 
Unbaptized Do. 
Slaves 
Do. 
79 
• . • . 168 
10 
257 
Of these twenty-five can read, and they all ex- 
pressed a desire for Mr. Kramer to come and settle 
among them, which, if the government permit, he 
is willing to do. 
On Friday, the 1 1th of February, I visited a Maho- 
metan mosque. The place was small — the floor was 
covered with green baze, on which sat about a hun- 
dred men, chiefly slaves, Malays, and Madagascars. 
All of them wore clean white robes, made in the fashion 
of shirts, and white pantaloons, with white cotton cloths 
spread before them, on which they prostrated them- 
selves. They sat in rows, extending from one side of 
the room to the other. There were six priests, wearing 
elegant turbans. A chair, having three steps up to it, 
stood at the east end of the place, which had a canopy 
supported by posts, resembling the tester of a bed with- 
out trimmings. Before this chair stood two priests 
who chaunted something, I supposed in the Malay 
language, in the chorus of which the people join- 
ed. At one part of it, the priests held their ears 
between the finger and thumb of each hand, continuing 
to chaunt, sometimes turning the right elbow upwards 
and the left downwards, and then the reverse. This 
awkward motion they continued to make for-^ome time. 
