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ACCOUNT OF SERETZ. 
[1820. 
sure that the kingdom of God has come near unto 
you." When some of the people were talking 
during the address, a captain named Seretz, [or 
clay,] pointed to them till he had attracted their 
notice, when he twisted about his lips in the 
same manner as they twist the mouth of their 
leathern sacks to prevent the corn coming out, 
intimating by this, as we afterwards learned, that 
they ought to make their mouths so close that 
not a single word should be uttered, 
Seretz had been at Lattakoo and GriquaTown, 
and is almost the only captain who appears to 
be desirous of imitating the dress and manners of 
civilized life. He wears a jacket and trowsers 
made by himself. Referring to these articles, he 
told me they were only made of skin, for he was a 
poor man ! I then remarked that the only differ- 
ence between his vest and mine was, the one being 
made from the skin of the sheep, and the other 
from that of the tiger.* He also wore a European 
hat, which he had obtained among the Griquas, 
with a white ostrich feather stuck into its side. 
20th. Therm, at sunrise 38 : noon 74. There 
was frost during the night, and its ettects on the 
* A vest which Mrs. Moffat had made me at Lattakoo from 
a tiger's skin. 
