31-2 
NUMEROUS HILLS. 
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others, you do not know how happy my heart is." 
He said he was so ignorant that he longed for 
Missionaries to come again, and tell him more of 
that word of God which he had heard before.* 
He was glad to receive the visits of the Mis- 
sionaries for two reasons—he liked the word of 
God which they told ; and they taught him how 
to live better, and more comfortably. 
Here he said, if his daughter who is with Kok 
should remain, that I must give him a waggon, 
for he was getting too old to walk. 
After taking leave of Tkai and the rest of the 
Bushmen, we went forward at eleven a.m., and 
were soon favoured with another extensive view 
of hilly scenery, I thought the finest I had seen ; 
it did not consist of different ranges but of sepa- 
rate hills. From the high ground on which we 
stood I counted seventy besides many at such a 
distance that their number could not be accu-^ 
rately ascertained. The ground on which they 
are situated is level, out of which the hills seemed 
to rise abruptly. At four p. m. we crossed an 
extensive marsh, containing many springs of 
* From Missionaries, who had formerly resided there, and at 
Toornberg, but were obliged to relinquish those stations, it 
being considered dangerous to collect so many savages, near 
the boundaries of the colony. 
