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CHAPTER IV. 
Account of Gnadenthal. Its church, grove of oaks, gardem, hurial- 
groiind, and Hottentots' dwellings. Bavians-Kloof. Building of 
a new-house. Daily einployments of the missionaries. Visit to the 
Hottentots' huts. Caffre-Kraal. Wilhelmina, a Caffre woman. 
Stephen, killed by a horse. Account of the interior of the Bavians- 
Kloof. Some internal arrangements of a Mission of the United 
Brethren. Chapel-servants. Celebration of the Lord's Supper. 
Decent appearance of the congregation. Journey to, and account 
of, the Warm-baths near Caledon^ Dr. Hassner. Description of 
Caledon. Schools at Gnadenthal. Tree serpents. Conversations 
with Father Marsveld. 
Gtnadenthai, lies about one hundred and twenty English miles 
from Capetown, in a direction nearly due east. It is the prin- 
cipal missionary settlement of the United Brethren in South 
Africa. 
The Mission among the Hottentots was begun in 17S7, by 
George Schmidt, a man of remarkable zeal and courage, who set- 
tled at this place, then known by the name of Bavians-Kloof. — 
The Hottentots heard the gospel with attention, and he soon 
collected a small Christian congregation. He taught the youth 
to read Dutch, and instructed the people in several useful arts. 
In 1744, leaving them to the care of a pious man, he went to 
Europe, with a view to represent the promising state of the Mis- 
sion, and to return with assistants. But, to his inexpressible 
grief and disappointment, he was not permitted by the Dutch 
East India Company to resume his labours, some ignorant peo- 
ple having insinuated, that the propagation of Christianity among 
the Hottentots would injure the interests of the colony. Since 
