VISIT TO SOUTH AFRICA. 8^ 
procure otherwise than by purchase. Some refused to sign the 
paper, and others were raised up by God, to become their friends. 
He will reward them for the cup of cold water, given to His ser- 
vants in that diiy. 
I spent the 1st of Febuary chiefly at home. In the afternoon, 
while I was drawing by the help of the camera obscura, several 
Hottentots gathered round me, whom I gratified by letting one after 
the other peep into it. One called to another passing by, " Come 
and peep, Susan, Mynheer has brought the church, and all the trees, 
into his box." 
CHAPTER V. 
Visit to Messieurs Tennis, senior and junior, and to Mr. Linde. Ac- 
coimt of a Funeral. Consultations regarding a reconnoitring jour- 
ney into the interior. A Hottentot garden described. Journey to 
Groenekloof. Night spent in the Wilderness. Arrival at Groene- 
kloof. Ei'cessive heat. Storm of Thunder. Birthday. Transac- 
tions at Capetown. Mr. Melville. Visit to Kerstejibosch, and to 
Newlands. Return to Gnadenthal. Uncertain dependance on 
African hospitality. Fires on the Mountains. Nursery of young 
trees. Gravestones. Singing of tJie Hottentot women. Hottentot 
Clans. Visit the boundary of the Settlement. Brother Bonatz's 
farewell. Instance of good discipline. Arrival of Brother Schmitt 
and Mr. Melville, at Gnadenthal. Freparations for the recon- 
noitring journey . 
February 2nd. Brother Bonatz, Brother Clemens and his wife. 
Sister Kohrhammer, and I, set out on a visit to some farmers, v/ho 
being acquainted with the interior, could give information res- 
pecting the Chamtoos-Kevier, and other situations proposed to me 
