August.] PIETY OF A CORANNA. 
boor in the Roggeveld, when young, and from 
whom she ran off in consequence of ill usage. 
Being asked if she liked the word of God ? She 
said " Yes ; for when the contagious disease 
prevailed, my child had it — I was advised to 
pray to God for him. Accordingly I went out to 
the bushes and did so. When I prayed, the 
child grew better ; but when I neglected to pray, 
the child got worse ; so I resolved to continue to 
pray till the child was well. This I did, and the 
child's life was spared. Ever since that time," 
she added, " I have loved the word of God." 
She thought that the Corannas who had come 
over the river, would not return to Konnah, 
but go down to the Great River. A Coranna 
happening to see the horns of the rhinoceros 
lying upon our luggage-waggon, remarked, that 
he had nearly lost his life by one of those animals ; 
after having chased the rhinoceros till it fell, part 
of his side was torn open with its horn ; hii* 
father and friends, he said, weeped, thinking it 
impossible for him to recover. 
Kruisman preached in the evening. The 
subject of his discourse was the conversion of 
the jailer at Philippi. He spoke a few sentences, 
first in Dutch for the sake of the Hottentots, and 
then repeated them in the Coranna language. He 
delivered what he said with much animation, 
especially when he spoke in the Coranna, which 
