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women were on the Sabbath dressed like Europeans, 
About two hundred generally attended worship ; thirty- 
nine persons were members of the Christian Church ; 
seventy children regularly attended the school, which 
was taught by a young Hottentot, who had been himself 
instructed at the same school ; six boys and seven girls 
were learning to write and cipher. At the commence- 
raent of the mission, only Dikkop, the chief, possessed a 
waggon ; now the Hottentots have five waggons, one 
hundred and fifty oxen, a hundred cows, fifty-three 
calves, and a considerable number of sheep. 
In the interval between Mr. Pacalt's death and the 
arrival of Mr. Messer from the mission at Bethelsdorp 
to supply his place, which might be upwards of two 
months, the Hottentots resembled a family of children 
bereaved of both their parents by a stroke ; every thing 
was at a stand, and they appeared as incapable of exer- 
tion as though they had been deprived of the faculty of 
thought. Their captain died a short time before the 
Missionary, which contributed to render their situation 
worse ; in fact, they resembled an army without officers. 
Two Missionary stations had also been erected at 
Albany, or that part of the colony on the eastern coast, 
which borders on Caffraria. One established by the 
Moravians on the White River, near the Sunday River, 
which, though cruelly destroyed during the CalTre war, 
by that untutored race, was resumed on the return of 
peace. Another, founded by the Missionary Society, at 
Theopolis, near the mouth of the Cowie River, on lands 
granted to the Society by his Excellency, Sir John 
Cradock, then Governor of the Cape, from whom also 
it received its name. 
During the Caffre war this settlement was attacked 
three times by thousands of infuriated Caffres, who were 
