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LIFE OF C. KOK. 
Kok was told by the boors, near the limit of the 
colony, that he ought to go and surrender his 
staff to the English governor, as it could be of 
no use to him now, having received it from the 
Dutch government, and that consequently he 
would be no longer considered as a captain. He, 
therefore, carried his staff to the Cape, and sur- 
rendered it to the English governor, who gave 
him another in its place, and desired him to 
govern the people beyond the colony as he had 
done before. 
For many years after he resided on the Great 
Orange River he sowed nothing but tobacco, 
supporting his family and dependants by hunting 
and by the milk of his cows ; but at length he 
procured, from some boors in the colony, seeds of 
the water-melon, pumkin, Indian corn, and 
beans. These he sowed in the vicinity of the 
river, and the produce has ever since been a 
remarkable addition to his own comfort and to 
that of his people. The commencement of pros- 
perity to his family and dependants, as a people, 
he dates from the first arrival of Missionaries 
among them, upwards of twenty years ago, when 
they were persuaded to take up a settled re- 
sidence in the Griqua country. All his children 
except two, and his numerous childrens' children, 
have been born on the Great River and in Griqua 
land. 
