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whom he had shown kindness, pointed him 
out as the fittest person I could have chosen to 
accompany me on the present occasion. 
When every thing was ready for our departure, 
Mateebe and Mahootoo stood at each side of 
my waggon to bid me farewel, and they seemed 
heartily to wish me a safe journey. Many of the 
inhabitants surrounded the waggons to witness 
their departure, and to take leave of the people 
who were to accompany us. Messrs. Hamilton 
and Moffat, with Mrs. Hamilton, Mrs. Moffat, 
and Mrs. Read, went with us in the waggons for 
a short way. Little Kleinveld stood in front of 
the luggage-waggon, undauntedly shaking hands 
with all the children.* That waggon was partly 
filled with articles belonging to the Matchappees, 
* Kleinveld was a Hottentot boy belonging to one of oin- 
institutions in the colony, whose father consented to his going 
with me to England for education. I brought him with me to 
Cape Town, on returning from our journey to Theopolis. He 
travelled with me to Lattakoo, and the whole way, till I re- 
turned a second time to Cape Town, when I received a message 
from his father, intimating that he felt himself in a declining 
state of health, and was desirous that his boy should be re- 
turned to him, which was done. 
Instead of Kleinveld, I brought to England another young 
Hottentot, Paul, the son of Dikkop, late Hottentot chief of 
Hooge Kraal, now called Pacaltsdorp. His father Dikkop pe- 
titioned for a Missionary to his people, as stated in my former 
journal, March, 1813, page 60. 
