574 REMARKS ON LICTHENSTEIN. 
' I had also an opportunity of visiting the ladies at Rode- 
Zand, and must say that I witnessed as much vivacity and 
cheerfuhiess among them as among any other ladies in the 
colony, though not manifested in the manner that Mr. L. 
most approved, by attending dancing parties. Nor did I find 
them such enemies to music as he represents them ; for I wit- 
nessed many of them assembled in the house of our mission- 
ary, where there was an organ playing ; and they were em- 
ployed in singing with it, but the words were hymns. 
Mr. L. not only blames the missionaries for perverting the 
taste of the ladies of Ilodezand, but likewise of the former 
clergyman, who, he says, was ignorant and illiterate, and 
preached the doctrine of every one devoting himself en- 
tirely to the salvation of his own soul ; a doctrine, he says, 
not only utterly destructive of all social affection, but even 
of all attention to the necessary occupations of life. What- 
ever this clergyman might be, his doctrine was according to 
scripture, only taking the word entirely in a restricted sense. 
He could not mean, that they were not to attend to the ne- 
cessary duties of life, but to direct their chief attention to 
that most important of all concerns, the everlasting happiness 
of their own souls — " The one thing needful." 
When I visited the clergyman whom Mr. L. represents as 
condemning the piety of the ladies of Rodezand, a short 
time before his death, instead of speaking against the conduct 
of our missionary there, he spoke highly in commendation 
of him, and freely consented to our sending missionaries to 
the Cedar mountains, a distant and very destitute part of his 
district. At the same time I do not call in question the ve- 
racity of Mr. L. in what he says of his sentiments, for he 
was a man who delighted in drollery; and the colony abounds 
with curious anecdotes respecting him. Wliether his drollery 
w^as suitable to the office he sustained, I leave to the judg- 
ment of him to whose bar he is gone. 
In page 235 Mr. Lichtenstein commences his remarks on 
Bethelsdorp and Vanderkemp. That settlement, it should 
be recollected, was then but lately begun; he says it was 
then about a mile and a half from Algoa bay, now it is about 
eight miles. He speaks of the Hottentot houses being 
mean, which undoubtedly they must have been; however he 
allows that by means of the instructions they received, from 
being riotous and troublesome, they were become peaceable. 
In the succeeding page he asserts " that the utility which 
might have been, and ought to have been derived from it, 
was lost by the overpious spirit, and proud humility of it$ 
