LIFE OF MOONCH. 
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kraal for a few days, the inhabitants rose up, at- 
tacked him with stones, and would have killed 
him ; but by the interposition of an old Bush- 
man they desisted, and he recovered. 
He had been on expeditions against the 
Mashows, the Gohas, the Moquaina, and the 
Mybose, or Tauwe. 
Many things, he said, have come to his know- 
ledge since the arrival of white men amongst 
them. He believed there was a God, and thought 
he was in heaven, but not upon earth ; that he 
made all things, and saw all the actions of men 
and beasts. It must be so, he added, because 
he made them ; he hears what they say, because 
he made their tongues. God would not work in 
his heart to make him better acquainted with 
him. He knew he had a soul, which was not to 
die ; and that such as do very wicked things go to 
the fire, while those who do good things ascend to 
heaven. When God changes a man's heart, he 
shows him the road to heaven ; and after walking 
that road, he comes to it. He does not pray as 
he wishes, for his speech is too heavy. Nor 
could his prayers, he said, be called praying.* 
* The above barren recitals are of no farther vahie than as 
calculated to throw light on the moral condition of these un- 
happy people. Their whole life seems to produce no incidents 
