310 PREACHING OF KRUISMAN. [1820. 
placed himself by a fire, and eagerly smoked a 
pipe of tobacco through water in a reed. Such is 
the measure of filial and parental feeling among 
the Bushmen, if feeling it may be termed. 
2nd. The number of Bushman visitors in the 
morning amounted to about fifty. They had no 
children above four years of age. They as- 
sembled in and before the tent, at eight a.m., 
when Kruisman, the native teacher from Konnah, 
addressed them upon the invitation of the Sa- 
maritan woman to her townsmen, " Come, see 
aman,"&c. 
He began by saying, that the conduct of this 
woman reminded him of the conduct of their 
chief, Tkai, when the Missionaries first brought 
the Gospel to them. He was so pleased with it, 
that he ran down to the Cradock River, and called 
to the Bushmen on the other side to come over 
and hear the good word of God. " Missionaries," 
continued Kruisman, " have not flesh and tobacco 
to offer, but they have something better, some- 
thing that will do more good, they have to 
tell about God and Jesus Christ The captain," 
he said, " did not call the Bushmen beyond the 
river to come and get tobacco and flesh, but to 
come and hear the word of God." 
I held a long conversation with Tkai, in the 
