No. XIII. 
REMARKS ON MR. LICHTENSTEIN'S OBSERVATIONS RES-- 
PECTING THE MISSIONARIES IN AFRICA. 
SINCE my journal went to press, a quarto volume has 
been put into my hands, intitled Travels in Southern 
Africa, by Henry Lichtenstein/ a German gentleman, that 
I might have an opportunity of examining various objections 
which he brings against our missions in that country. 
Though his travels, related in that volume, were confined 
to the colony, or that part of Africa inhabited by Hottentots 
and Dutch farmers, yet his book contains much information 
concerning the state of affairs when the colony was under the 
Dutch Government. 
In page 143 he speaks of a swarm of missionaries having 
completely spoiled the ladies of Rodezand, (a village about 
forty miles from the Cape,) because they had laid aside 
what he terms, the lively feelings of youth, and betaken 
themselves to prayer and praising of God, contrary, as he 
says, to the wishes of their regular clergyman, who en- 
couraged cheerfulness among the young people. He did so, 
and sometimes at the expense of the missionaries, one in- 
stance of which will explain his turn of mind. One of our 
Dutch missionaries was extremely averse to riding on horse- 
back, as it shook his feeble frame almost to pieces. This 
clergyman determined, however, that he should have a ride 
to Cape-town — Accordingly^ he sent for the missionary, in 
great haste, on a Lord's day morning, and informed him, 
that he had just received an order from the Governor, de- 
siring him to come to Cape- town to converse with him on 
some point connected with his work, and a horse was ready 
for him to mount. The poor young man, from his anxiety 
about this order of the Governor, got ready in a few mi- 
nutes, and with fear and trembling for the consequences of 
a ride, mounted the horse, and the clergyman had the satis- 
faction to see him in motion before he himself mounted the 
pulpit. However, when he thought the missionary had 
been sufficiently jolted, he dispatched a man after him, to 
inform him that the whole was a hoax. 
