VISIT TO SOUTH AFRICA. 
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all the new-comers went with Brother Bonatz on a visit to the 
Hottentots and Caffres beyond the Bavians-Revier. 
20th. After dinner, word was brouf^ht that a communicant, Ste- 
phen, had received so severe a blow in his stomach b}^ the kick of a 
horse, that his life was in danger. I accompanied Brother Bonatz 
to see him. We found him lying on his breast, under a hedge, with 
four or five women sitting near him. Some men had conveyed him 
thus far on a bed-stead, when, not able to bear the motion, he beg- 
ged to be put down. We encouraged him to endeavour to rise ; 
and, after he had taken some medicine, four stout men carried him 
to his dwelling, but the door being too narrow to admit the bed- 
stead, they conveyed him into the stable. He was in great ago- 
ny, and his case truly pitiable. His wife had just been delivered. 
They were extremely poor, and had four young children alive; one 
was lately drowned. They spoke of their complicated distress, with 
resignation to the will of God, and poor Stephen expressed his con- 
viction, that he should depart out of this world, praying that the 
Lord would have mercy on him and take him to himself. On 
our return, something was sent for the relief of the patient . 
In the evening, I walked with Brother Lemmerz into the KloofI 
We worked our way through the bushes towards a rocky eminence, 
from which I hoped to gain a view of the division made in the up- 
per part of the kloof by four round hillocks, but was disappointed. 
A number of children of both sexes were employed in getting fire- 
wood, all with naked feet, and not half dressed, fearing neither thorns, 
sharp stones, nor serpents, which are not unfrequently met with. 
The stone throughout the kloof is sand-stone, generally of a reddish 
hue, intersected by veins of white quartz, here and there imperfectly 
chrystalized. The rocks appear as if they were put together of frag- 
ments of various sizes. Some of their ledges are covered with beau- 
tiful shrubs, and the partridge aloe grows everywhere in great per- 
fection. 
This evening, a chestwith Dutch bibles and Testaments, a present 
from the British and Foreign Bible Society, arrived, to the great joy 
