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other hill around, it stood majestically, like a 
king in the midst of his subjects. It had been 
called by the boors who first discovered it 
Tover-berg, or Witch-Mountain, being seen from 
a great distance, but owing to its size, and the 
levelness of the country to the south of it, the 
first discoverers must have thought it much 
nearer than it really was, and under this decep- 
tion as to its real distance ; they might suppose 
that it receded from them as they advanced, 
therefore they gave it that name. We arrived 
and halted at Toornberg Fountain at five p. m. 
Therm, at noon 74. 
On returning to the waggons, after a walk, I 
was glad to find that the Bushman chief of that 
district had arrived with two of his brothers, 
Isaac and Jacob. His own name was Na-a-kaw. 
The following is the substance of a conversa- 
tion with Na-a-kaw, chief of the Toornberg 
Bushmen. 
He was born, he said, and had always lived at 
Toornberg. I asked how he lived before the Mis- 
sionaries came ? He said, the Lord Jesus kept and 
preserved him till then ; that he was in a wretched 
state before they came. He wanted teachers to 
come and teach him more of the will of God ; 
and he wished that bad men might come and 
