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gular plan had been followed throughout, by degrees I became 
pleased with the romantic irregularity of the interior part of the 
settlement, when, as I walked among the hedges on a serpentine 
foot-path, I unexpectedly met with a snug cottage under cover of 
quince, fig, and other fruit-trees, and an assemblage of women and 
children sitting at work under their shade; then, after some friendly 
conversation, passing on, 1 again surprised another family with a 
visit. In one of the huts, Brother Bonatz desired a poor boy, 
dressed only in a kaross and apron, to read some verses in the bible 
to me, which he did without hesitation. 
At three o'clock in the afternoon, a pretty large congregation of 
communicants attended the confirmation of a Hottentot woman, 
previous to her first participation of the Holy Communion. Father 
Schwinn oflflciated, and delivered an edifying discourse on the aim 
of that sacred ordinance. I took afterwards a walk with Brother 
Lemmerz, into a part of the settlement on the eminence beyond the 
Bavians-Revier, called the Caffie-Kraal, being inhabited chiefly by 
Christian Caffres. These people were admitted as inhabitants at 
Gnadenthal before the late disturbances; and when all the Caffres 
were banished the colony, and obliged to retreat across the Great 
Fish River, those belonging to the Brethren's Mission obtained 
leave from Government to remain here, and have always conducted 
themselves in. the most peaceable and orderly manner. Some of 
them are distinguished by their exemplary conduct. They differ in 
features and in habits from the Hottentots; but here, associate with 
them in j^erfect amity. 
From thence we went into a kloof or valley called Siebenfon- 
teyn, at the bottom of tlie ascent towards the great mountain, where 
we found a very good house and garden. The wife of the possessor, 
with whom Ave had some conversation, seemed a pious, sensible 
woman. 
To-day I heard with much pleasure a party of men and v/omen, 
employed as day-labourers in the missionaries' garden, both before 
and after their meal, which they enjoyed in the shade of the grove, 
